Introduction to the ASP.NET Web API platform from ASP.NET MVC 4

Yuri Lazebnik made acquaintance with the ASP.NET Web API platform from ASP.NET MVC 4

• When may need API
• API architecture choice: ReSTful vs. SOAP / RPC

Overview of the Web API request pipeline:

• Hosting in IIS vs. Self-hosted service
• Routing requests
• Exception Handling
• OData protocol support
• Extension points of query processing pipeline