The services that comprise distributed applications must communicate with one another to exchange data or information. You need a common data format for these communications, which narrows the options ...

ASP.NET Core configuration providers read configuration data from common sources such as JSON files and databases. But you can use other sources by creating custom configuration providers. We use ...

Visual Studio 2013 came with a new version of Web API. The Web API 2.1 update includes a host of new features, including support for Binary JSON. Learn how to leverage BSON by building a Web API 2.1 ...

ASP.NET Web API is a solid communications framework, and many applications can benefit from breaking free of IIS by including an embedded ASP.NET Web API server. In 2011, Microsoft released ASP.NET ...

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