Creating and Consuming Web API Services

Overview/Description
This course covers Microsoft's latest technology for building distributed, MVC-style services and is one of a series that prepares students for Microsoft exam 70-487.

Target Audience
Developers wanting to learn Microsoft's Web API service technology and those preparing for Microsoft exam 70-487.

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
3.0

Lesson Objectives

Creating and Consuming Web API Services

• start the course
• explain Web API and how it works
• create a simple Web API service
• use different data formats with Web API services
• define actions and parameters to handle data binding for Web API services
• implement action filters for Web API services
• implement exception filters for Web API services
• implement unit testing of Web API services
• use HttpMessageHandlers to process client requests and server responses for Web API services
• implement asynchronous operations within a Web API service to increase its scalability
• understand streaming actions and how to implement them for Web API services
• understand SignalR and how to implement it on both the client and server for Web API services
• explicitly set URI spaces and map routes to these for Web API services
• understand dependency injection and use the dependency resolver to implement it for Web API services
• implement the OData protocol in a Web API Server
• consume Web API services using the standard HTTP library, HttpClient
• consume Web API services asynchronously
• send and receive requests for a Web API service in different formats
• batch requests to improve the speed of an application when calling Web API services
• implement Basic and Windows authentication and SSL for Web API services, and configure multiple authentication modes on a single endpoint
• explain and implement simple cross-site request forgery (XSRF) prevention for Web API services
• work with authorization and authentication filters for Web API services
• understand and implement simple cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) for Web API services
• explain OAuth 2.0 and implement SSO over OAuth 2.0 for Web API services
• implement Windows authentication for Web API services
• implement multiple authentication schemes on the same Web API endpoint
• host a Web API service outside of ASP.NET
• host a Web API service using Open Web Interface for .NET (OWIN)
• host a Web API service in an Azure Worker Role
• restrict message sizes to control the load on Web API services
• understand and configure streaming for Web API services
• create and secure a Web API web service