responsiveX Founder & CEO, Eric D. Boyd, will present ASP.NET Web API at the Chicago .NET Developers (downtown) group on Thursday, March 7th.
Session Overview
The consumers of our data and application logic are vast. They include internal and external consumers, web, mobile and traditional clients, and span many platforms, vendors and technologies. Providing API consumers RESTful HTTP services can help you reduce some of the pain associated with reaching this diverse set of consumers. ASP.NET Web API is a technology that helps reduces your pain when creating these RESTful services. In this session, Eric D. Boyd will walk through ASP.NET Web API and show you how you can use your existing ASP.NET MVC skills with to create RESTful services with ASP.NET Web API. From there, Eric will show you how you can take more advanced control with content negotiation, hypermedia, OData support, security and self-hosting your services.
What you will learn:
- Overview of ASP.NET Web API
- How to get started creating RESTful HTTP services using ASP.NET Web API
- Advanced RESTful service scenarios using ASP.NET Web API
Speaker Bio
Eric D. Boyd is the Founder and CEO of responsiveX, a Windows Azure MVP, and a regular speaker at national conferences, regional code camps and local user groups. He is so passionate about apps and cloud services that he founded responsiveX (www.responsiveX.com), a management and technology consultancy that helps customers create great web, mobile and client experiences, and these apps are often powered by cloud services. Eric launched his technology career almost two decades ago with a web development startup and has served in multiple roles since including developer, consultant,technology executive and business owner. You can find Eric blogging at http://www.EricDBoyd.com and on Twitter at http://twitter.com/EricDBoyd.
Check out the Chicago .NET Developers (downtown) Meetup.com group for more information and registration.
