Use MVC Web API

Visual studio 2012 provides a features of the asp.net MVC with web api with web services to rest service call.

So when need to create web services we can use this one rather than creating a traditional web services or WCF services.

Below are the process for this to create MVC web api.

Web API Template

Below are the code.

{
        // GET api/values
        public IEnumerable<string> GetData()
        {
            return new string[] { "value1", "value2" };
        }
}

So once call below url

http://localhost/API/Values

It execute GetData and if post request via Post method then it execute Post method. Here we don’t need to set action method.
If need to use different action method then make below changes in WebApiConfig

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

Change below with action method so we can use different action methods

config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
                name: "DefaultApi",
                routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{action}/{{id}",
                defaults: new { id = RouteParameter.Optional }
            );

Thanks,
Amit Patel
“Enjoy Programming”