Implementing REST Services using Web API

Implementing REST Services using Web API

REST has emerged in recent years as a tremendously important vehicle for creating flexible and standards-based distributed systems and microservice architectures.

This course describes REST best practices and discusses important architectural and API modelling concepts, which you need to know in order to create scalable, flexible, and performant REST APIs. The course is based on .NET 6, and discusses many of the rich framework APIs and advanced techniques available.

Duration

3 days

Prerequisites

6 months experience of C# programming

What you'll learn

Creating REST services using Web API
Understanding attribute routing
Configuring serialization
Implementing middleware, filters, and model binders
Working with OData
Containerizing ASP.NET Core applications
REST best practices

Course details

Web API Essential Concepts

Overview of REST Services
Web API Essential Concepts in .NET
Implementing Industrial-Strength Actions

A Closer Look at Attribute Routing

Recap of Attribute Routing
Route Constraints
Additional Techniques

Dependency Injection, Configuration, and Entity Framework

Dependency Injection in Web API applications
Configuration
Using Entity Framework Core

Serialization

Essential Concepts
JSON Media-Type Formatting
XML Media-Type Formatting
Implementing HTTP Clients

Web API Techniques

Parameter Binding
Custom Middleware Components
Overview of Filters
Defining and Using Custom Filters

Working with OData

Introduction to OData
Performing OData Queries
Modifying Data using OData
Implementing an OData Service

Containerizing ASP.NET Core Apps

Overview of Containerization and Docker
Understanding Docker Images
Containerizing a Minimal ASP.NET Web App
Containerizing via Visual Studio

REST Design Best Practices

Basic Good Practice
Designing Resources
Filtering, Sorting, and Searching
Representing Data
Quality of Service Issues