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 ...

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We wouldn’t consider Windows authentication as a feasible strategy as you cannot expose your service over the Internet if you leverage Windows authentication. Forms authentication uses the ASP.Net ...

Message handlers in Web API provide you the opportunity to process, edit, or decline an incoming request before it reaches the HttpControllerDispatcher. Message handlers are executed much earlier in ...

Application program interfaces (APIs) form bridges between applications, enabling programs to talk to each other across differing code bases and hardwares. But in the wrong hands, APIs can inflict ...

Google is replacing its implementation of the Java application programming interfaces (APIs) in Android with OpenJDK, the open source version of Oracle's Java Development Kit (JDK). The news first ...