Creating a Custom Web API Model Binder
Jan 27,
2013
When the Web API accepts a request from a client to a service, the Web API attempts to map the data in the request to a .NET object to pass as a parameter to the appropriate method in the service–a process called model binding. I’m consistently amazed at how powerful model binding is. But, as […]
Processing Messages in a Self-Hosted Web API Service
Jan 20,
2013
In an earlier post, I showed how to host an ASP.NET Web API service on a server without IIS. In that post, I suggested that the most interesting object used in the self-hosting process is the HttpSelfHostConfiguration object–that’s the object that allows you to configure your service. In that last post, for instance, I used […]
