Create an ASP.NET Core API project. First off, let’s create an ASP.NET Core project in Visual Studio. Assuming Visual Studio 2019 is installed in your system, follow the steps outlined below to ...

Back in 2016, I asked Microsoft about the status of OData -- the RESTful API protocol it developed back in 2007 -- because it seemed its initial buzz had tapered off dramatically. I was assured by the ...

Read this 12-page guide to learn the keys to REST and API design. It covers how to make connections work and using URIs for identification, media types for representation, header+body for ...

The Visual Power of Black Rest Black people are generally pictured as doing anything but relaxing—as being attacked, or agitating, or performing. The Black Rest Project aims to widen the lens.

The key difference between the terms REST versus RESTful is that REST refers to a philosophy about the architecture and design of web services, while the term RESTful refers to any API that properly ...

Riya CEO Munjal Shah has been blogging about his company's shift in strategy, moving from a focus on face recognition to visual Web search (see also my post from May 16 and recent posts from Mike ...

A core tenant of the RESTful API development doctrine is that a Uniform Resource Locator, as the name implies, should uniquely identify a resource on the server. Sadly, that simple concept is often ...

Let's start with a simple example. We'll need an existing REST API to work with. Browsing around on the Internet, I come across a REST API called Cat Facts. This API returns various facts about our ...

"Organizations are increasingly looking for an enterprise-grade REST API back-end that connects to any data source and gives front-end developers the RESTful services they need at the start of ...

Back in 2016, I asked Microsoft about the status of OData -- the RESTful API protocol it developed back in 2007 -- because it seemed its initial buzz had tapered off dramatically. I was assured by the ...