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Try out ASP.NET Web API CORS support using the nightly builds

Recently we just added the support for CORS in Web API. You can find more information on this from...

Author: Yao - MSFT Date: 04/05/2013

Design-time generation of help page (or client) for ASP.NET Web API

All the help page samples I’ve shown you so far are pretty much generated at runtime, meaning the...

Author: Yao - MSFT Date: 01/20/2013

Making ASP.NET Web API Help Page work on self-hosted services

Even though ASP.NET Web API Help Page is implemented using ASP.NET MVC, which won’t work on...

Author: Yao - MSFT Date: 12/20/2012

ASP.NET Web API Help Page Part 3: Advanced Help Page customizations

In this post, I’ll go over some advanced customization scenarios for ASP.NET Web API Help Page....

Author: Yao - MSFT Date: 12/10/2012

Adding a simple Test Client to ASP.NET Web API Help Page

ASP.NET Web API Help Page is a useful extension that automatically generates a web-based...

Author: Yao - MSFT Date: 12/02/2012

Deploying your first Facebook App on Azure using ASP.NET MVC Facebook Template

Today we announced the preview for ASP.NET Fall 2012 Update and one of the cool features we added to...

Author: Yao - MSFT Date: 10/31/2012

ASP.NET Web API Help Page is now part of the Web API project template

I’m pleased to announce that with the ASP.NET Fall 2012 Update (preview), ASP.NET Web API Help Page...

Author: Yao - MSFT Date: 10/31/2012

ASP.NET Web API Help Page Part 2: Providing custom samples on the Help Page

Samples in ASP.NET Web API Help Page are automatically generated based on your action parameters and...

Author: Yao - MSFT Date: 10/13/2012

ASP.NET Web API Help Page Part 1: Basic Help Page customizations

Now that you have installed the ASP.NET Web API Help Page, I’m going to walk you through some of the...

Author: Yao - MSFT Date: 09/30/2012

Introducing the ASP.NET Web API Help Page (Preview)

Today, following the announcement of the official release for ASP.NET Web API , we also released a...

Author: Yao - MSFT Date: 08/15/2012

ASP.NET Web API and Azure Blob Storage

When you create a Web API service that needs to store large amount of unstructured data (pictures,...

Author: Yao - MSFT Date: 07/02/2012

Using ApiExplorer to export API information to PostMan, a Chrome extension for testing Web APIs

Couple days ago, Henrik brought this post into my attention - It’s a nice article that describes how...

Author: Yao - MSFT Date: 06/15/2012

ASP.NET Web API: Generating a Web API help page using ApiExplorer

In the previous post, I briefly introduced you to the IApiExplorer which can be used to generate...

Author: Yao - MSFT Date: 05/21/2012

ASP.NET Web API: Introducing IApiExplorer/ApiExplorer

IApiExplorer is an abstraction layer that allows you to obtain a description of the structure of...

Author: Yao - MSFT Date: 05/13/2012