Microsoft’s ASP.NET Web API is a lightweight framework you can use to build stateless RESTful services that run on HTTP. Exceptions are errors that occur at runtime, and exception handling is ...

Microsoft has purchased Washington, D.C. startup Apiphany, a maker of an application-programming-interface management platform, which it plans to make available as part of Windows Azure.

ASP.NET Web API is a solid communications framework, and many applications can benefit from breaking free of IIS by including an embedded ASP.NET Web API server. In 2011, Microsoft released ASP.NET ...

Eric Vogel covers how to use the new Web API 2 routing attributes to create a Web service in Part 1 of this series.

The Web Platform Installer (Web PI) is a simple free tool that allows you to install all or part of Microsoft's entire Web Platform and keep each individual component up-to-date. Web PI downloads ...