ASP.NET Web API - From Start to Rest in 60 minutes with Paul Glavich + News - SSW TV - Learn from Professional Software Developers

In this session, you will find out how to make a very REST friendly API using the new and shiny ASP.Net WebAPI technology set shipped with MVC 4. We will look at the way we have exposed API’s in the past, and how that has changed overtime to what we have today.

We will examine how to create our API to automatically handle HTTP verbs, easy support of multiple content types, usage logging, various media handling and much more. If you are creating a new API, or are currently using ASMX, WCF, WCFWebAPI or MVC to expose your API, come and see how to do it using the new kid on the block.

Monthly News (16th Oct 2012)

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In this month’s news, Adam Cogan discusses:

Windows Surface (price announcement)
Office 2013 RTM
SharePoint 2013
DDD Brisbane (December 1st 2012) – call for content
www.webplatform.org – A new wiki for software developers
Enterprise MVC Course (SSW)
Xbox Music – 30 million tracks
Scott Guthrie – Windows Azure for building Mobile Apps

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About the speakers

Mr Web API

Paul is currently an ASP.NET MVP and works as a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Saasu (saasu.com). Previously he was a senior consultant for readify, and prior to that a technical architect for EDS Australia. He has over 20 years of industry experience ranging PICK, C, C++, Delphi and Visual Basic 3/4/5/6 to his current speciality in .Net with C#, ASP.NET and WCF

Paul has been developing in .Net technologies since .Net was first in Beta and was technical architect for one of the worlds first internet banking solutions using .Net technology.

Paul has authored a total of 3 books, Beginning AJAX in ASP.NET, Beginning Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX, and the latest book on .Net Performance Testing and Optimisation. He is currently focusing on Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX and Windows Communication Foundation technologies.

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