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Think of a REST API like a waiter in a restaurant. You (an app) tell the waiter what you want (your request), and the waiter goes to the kitchen (the server) to get it for you. REST is just a set of ...

I want to build a web service. What I mean by this is that I want to stand up a server somewhere at some.domain.foo, with some database on the server or whatever, and construct a series of URIs that ...

APIs seem to be everywhere these days. Every popular online service has one. APIs allow developers to interact with online services without actually having to point and click their way through a UI.

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 ...