Module 1: Introduction to ASP.NET Web API
- Overview of Web APIs
- What is a Web API?
- RESTful Services
- REST principles and constraints
- HTTP methods (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE)
- Setting up the Development Environment
- Installing Visual Studio
- Creating your first Web API project
Module 2: ASP.NET Web API Basics
- Understanding Controllers and Actions
- What are controllers and actions?
- Creating and using controllers
- Routing in Web API
- Model Binding
- Data from URL, query strings, and body
- Complex types and default model binding
- HTTP Responses
- Returning HTTP status codes
- Customizing responses
- JSON and XML Formatters
- Content negotiation
- Serialization and deserialization
Module 3: Advanced API Development
- Dependency Injection
- Introduction to DI
- Configuring DI in Web API
- Filters and Action Results
- Authentication and authorization filters
- Exception handling using filters
- Attribute Routing
- Basics of attribute routing
- Custom route templates
- File Uploads and Downloads
- Handling file uploads in Web API
- Returning files as responses
Module 4: Security in Web API
- Authentication and Authorization
- Basic authentication
- Token-based authentication (JWT)
- Implementing HTTPS
- Securing endpoints with SSL/TLS
- Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)
- Configuring CORS in Web API
- Avoiding CORS errors
Module 5: Working with Data
- Database Integration
- Setting up Entity Framework Core with Web API
- Performing CRUD operations
- Async Programming
- Introduction to async/await
- Implementing asynchronous APIs
- Paging, Sorting, and Filtering
- Implementing efficient data retrieval
- Supporting OData in Web API
Module 6: Real-World API Development
- Building a Complete API
- Design a RESTful API from scratch
- Documentation with Swagger/OpenAPI
- Versioning APIs
- URL-based versioning
- Header-based versioning
- Handling Concurrency
- Optimistic and pessimistic concurrency in APIs