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Microsoft announced ASP.NET Core 2.2

In yesterday’s .Net conference, Microsoft announced ASP.NET Core 2.2 as part of .Net Core 2.2 Preview 2 SDK and Visual Studio 2017 15.9 Preview 2. List of new features looks very interesting. Let's have a gist of those: Template updates: This release includes Bootstrap 4 support in ASP.NET Core Web Project templates as well as in scaffold and is the default version for UI, which gives completely new look. Supports Angular 6 for SPA based templates. Web API related changes are the major improvements in this release and contributes towards much easier and much better  Web APIs. HTTP/2 support is added for Kestral. lIIS in-process hosting model is added for IIS for much better performance and reliability. Health checks framework is integrated now to monitor health of APIs and apps.Using this we can make sure that our apps and APIs are live and ready for traffic prone situations. New routing system Endpoint routing was brought in, which takes

Web API Resource URI construction Practices

Main focus of this article would be on how to make Web API more understandable to the consumers from Resource URI construction point. In Web API, each resource will have unique identifier. So, one should be very careful while constructing these URIs. Here are the few very good practices one should go for: URI should belong to NOUN rather than ACTIONS. URI example Is preferred? Remarks api/getemployees × api/employees √ Using GET api/id/employees × api/employees/{id} √ Fetch employee with a given ID using GET api/xyz/xyz/employees × api/employees √ api/employees/orderby/name × api/employees?orderby=name √ Filter criteria Should Nouns be Pluralize or not? It is up to you whether you want to go for pluralize nouns or not. But whatever decision you are making it should be consistent throughout the controller

Generating documentation for Web API 2.0

In my previous article, we got the gist of Web API but we didn’t do anything on documentation part. So, in this article we will cover the documentation of our Wep API which will help the users using Swagger. What is Swagger? Swagger is a standard which is used to define the API, so that endpoints can be found and discovered easily with the help of small documentation along with the user interface. If it is clear that what API is doing, one can easily consume these APIs. It is similar to WSDL for Web Services. How to get Swagger? Swagger is an open source library with a name SwashBuckle and can be taken by any means of importing packages. Let’s have a look on how to get it from Nuget: What code changes are required? First of all, we have to go and register the service for swagger as: public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services) { services.AddMvc(); services.AddSwaggerGen(options=> { options.SwaggerDoc( "Version 1" , new Sw