Level: Introductory to Intermediate

Deborah Kurata

Microsoft MVP and Google Developer Expert

This session covers the fundamentals of building Web API services.

The Web API is a new easy-to-use framework that allows you to build a service that can send or receive data over HTTP to a range of clients. If this sounds something like Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), you are right. But this new framework is MUCH easier to use and provides content that is much easier to consume by client applications.

A Web API service can provide content to a broad variety of device and client platforms including Windows 8 applications. It provides that content in different formats such as XML or JSON (JavaScript Object Notation). This session covers the fundamentals of building Web API services.

You will learn:

• Understand the purpose and benefits of Web API.
• How to build a Web API service.
• Discover how to call a Web API from several different clients.