Dan Roth Takes Us on a Deep Dive into Web API

The Discussion

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  Can you make the source code for JSON.NET demo available? Also, how do you get the current HttpConfiguration in the Application_Start() method?

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  The parts of the video showing the screen are very blurry. It makes it hard to follow.

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  Here is the location of source code:
  http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Contact-Manager-Web-API-0e8e373d/sourcecode?fileId=60331&pathId=1854154262
  

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  The page for downloading the sourcecode doesn't seem to exist....

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  Contact Manager Web API (updated on 8/16): http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Contact-Manager-Web-API-0e8e373d

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  No se puede ver claramente el código en el video.

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  ya ! the video is very blurry.

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  Great video - got everything I needed to know from it. Thanks guys.

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  Yeah it's nice and easy to understand.

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  Everything sounded great until you started the cryptic Ninject part. Really do I require all these multipage IoC lambda code to create a WebApi?

  Another question that concerns me a lot is JSONP / CORS support. Will you provide it out of the box or we will have to search the web for JSONPSupportBehavior attributes, etc as we currently do for WCF OData?

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  Really really empy! Hahaha.

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  Great video , Thanks .

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  Is there any way to make the API URI work where we can insert an "app" in the routing path before the controller? My business use case is to create a site that allows us to create different apps that install onto a server application ( web of course ) and not worry about overlapping controller names.
  
  So your api was...
  
  /api/contacts/
  
  ... but I would like to have it like this for say faq(s)
  
  /api/faq/question/
  
  The question would be the controller and this would allow for applications to be dropped into the web site like faq, blog, shop, etc. This would work great for open source distributed applications where sub apps can be written off a core application framework.

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  John,
  In WebApiConfig.cs configure a new route to create a route where the map looks like this:
  
  config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
  name: "FAQ",
  routeTemplate: "api/faq/{controller}/{id}",
  defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional }
  
  I then added a new folder in the Controllers folder called faq. Then added my WebApiController called QuestionsController in the default namespace (MvcApplication1.Controllers) and accessed it via http://localhost:61604/api/Questions and I got my string values.
  
  

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  @John Farrar:

  There were some typos in my message above...

  In WebApiConfig.cs configure a new route to create a route where the map looks like this:
  

  config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
                  name: "FAQ",
                  routeTemplate: "api/faq/{controller}/{id}",
                  defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional }

  
  
  I then added a new folder in the Controllers folder called faq. Then added my WebApiController called QuestionsController in the default namespace (MvcApplication1.Controllers.faq) and accessed it via http://localhost:61604/api/faq/Questions and I got my string values. I placed the route above the default route.

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  Any chance you can stop making those annoying grunting noises when the guest is speaking.

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  interesting video 

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  A good start. We really need a few deep-dives per subject. This is a good broad video. Thanks

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  5 attempts to download the High Quality MP4 video all resulted in "Connection closed at byte 106692844" :-(
  

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  @Chue Flade: I was able to download that file (IE10, North Central US data center [you can see what data center you're getting the file from via the round icon at the very top of the page, next to the left of Follow Us on Twitter link], high speed non-Microsoft net connection...) So it doesn't look like anything directly related to the file itself at least.

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  Thank the video, it help me so much

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  Can you use WEB API to call phone? if so what is needed to do so.  Brady mentioned something about a phone sdk on the video.