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Web Services Using ASP.NET Core Web API

Learn about the foundational concepts for building modern web services: HTTP, RESTful principles, common HTTP requests/responses, and status codes for success and failure.

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Understanding web service acronyms
Understanding HTTP requests and responses for Web APIs
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Before we build a modern web service, we need to cover some background to set the context for this chapter.

Understanding web service acronyms

Although HTTP was originally designed to request and respond with HTML and other resources for humans to look at, it is also good for building services. Roy Fielding stated in his doctoral dissertation, describing the Representational State Transfer (REST) architectural style, that the HTTP standard would be good for building services because it defines the following:

URIs to uniquely identify resources, like:

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Introduction

Hello, C#! Welcome, .NET!

Speaking C#

Controlling Flow, Converting Types, and Handling Exception

Writing, Debugging, and Testing Functions

Building Your Own Types with Object-Oriented Programming

Implementing Interfaces and Inheriting Classes

Packaging and Distributing .NET Types

Working with Common .NET Types

Working with Files, Streams, and Serialization

Working with Data Using Entity Framework Core

Querying and Manipulating Data Using LINQ

Introducing Web Development Using ASP.NET Core

Building Websites Using ASP.NET Core Razor Pages

Building Websites Using the Model-View-Controller Pattern

Building and Consuming Web Services

Building User Interfaces Using Blazor

Conclusion

Web Services Using ASP.NET Core Web API

Understanding web service acronyms