Web API Advanced

Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
Course Number
Expertise Level

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Overview/Description
Web API is the application programming interface for both the web server (server side) and web browser (client side). There are a lot of different technologies and practices that fall into this category. In this course, you will learn about request binding, request validation, API security, and hosting.

Target Audience
Web developers looking to expand their skillset by learning about the common Web APIs

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
2.9

Lesson Objectives

Web API Advanced

start the course

apply jQuery to your own development site

describe what JSON is and how it is used

describe what AJAX is and how it is used

describe how a Web API can be consumed

recall how to do Model Binding with ASP.NET Web API

recall how to do Formatter Binding with ASP.NET Web API

recall how to do Parameter Binding with ASP.NET Web API

create a custom ValueProvider

create a custom ModelBinder

create a custom ParameterBinding

use attributes from the System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations namespace to set validation rules

use custom validation attributes to annotate your model

compare fluent validation and data annotation

describe how the Web API framework receives a request, and routes the request to an action

create a Web.config file for your application and set the validateRequest attribute

describe how to use convention-based routing in conjunction with the new attribute routing

identify Web API Services Security

compare authentication and authorization

use the authorization filter

apply the filter as a global, controller, or action

describe how .NET role-based security uses the principal

compare claims-based security, authorization and role-based security methods

describe why it is necessary to use encryption

compare hosting and self-hosting and why you would use one over the other

compare in-memory hosting and self-hosting

understand how to use different API tools and understand concepts

Course Number:
sd_apid_a02_it_enus

Expertise Level
Intermediate