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Visual Studio 2013 came with a new version of Web API. The Web API 2.1 update includes a host of new features, including support for Binary JSON. Learn how to leverage BSON by building a Web API 2.1 ...

Take advantage of authentication and authorization, API keys, rate limiting, CORS, API versioning, and other recommended practices to build secure and robust APIs in ASP.NET Core. Because our APIs ...

We have three ways to return data and HTTP status codes from an action method in ASP.NET Core. You can return a specific type, return an instance of type IActionResult, or return an instance of type ...

When a request comes in to your ASP.NET site, it's routed through a series of message handlers (in ASP.NET Web API) or modules (in ASP.NET MVC), each of which performs some operation on the request.