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 ...

Many discussions of Web APIs get hung up on the finer points of REST APIs and whether a given RESTful API actually follows REST principles. For the record, I set out to find a good example of someone ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...