Developers use application programming interfaces to hide complexity, organize code, design reusable components, and connect different systems, applications, or services. The term API stands for ...

“API” is an acronym for application programming interface, a set of protocols that allows two software programs to communicate. APIs are used to power web applications and integrate different software ...

ASP.NET Web API is a solid communications framework, and many applications can benefit from breaking free of IIS by including an embedded ASP.NET Web API server. In 2011, Microsoft released ASP.NET ...

Discussing technical jargon isn't everyone's favorite pastime, but it's important to understand how the technology we use works, at least on a basic level. API is one technical term that comes up ...

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ASP.Net Web API is a lightweight framework used for building stateless HTTP services. You can use Web API to design and implement RESTful services that run on HTTP. REST is an architectural style — a ...

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