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Web Service APIs in dotnet C# made easy with ApiController: Part 1

Fri 10-Apr-2020Fri 10-Apr-2020 by Ollie

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series .NET Web Services

Setting up your web service Dotnet’s stuff for developing web applications includes an inheritable class called ApiController. This makes it easy to develop REST-style web services, either for standalone API servers or in the context of larger servers. To start using ApiController, however, requires navigating lots of Microsoft documentation; as of early 2020 that documentation … Read more

Web Services in C#: Status, Parameters, Cookies

Mon 27-Apr-2020Fri 10-Apr-2020 by Ollie

This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series .NET Web Services

Status Codes Real Web services have to be able to pass back a status code. Maybe it’s a plain 200 success code, or a 404 not found code. Whatever. We have to be able to control it. Here’s how. We’ll use the NegotiatedContentResult template class in the signature for the Get method. We have to … Read more

Web Services in C#: Payloads: PUT, POST, PATCH

Sat 11-Apr-2020Fri 10-Apr-2020 by Ollie

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series .NET Web Services

We send data to a web service via POST, PUT, or PATCH. All these web requests carry a payload: one or more items of data. How do we code these web services to accept data?