Building RESTful services with WebApi

With the popularization of the cloud and smart devices, software applications are becoming much more distributed. Relying on web services to provide access to your company information allows both internal and external applications to be built for a variety of platforms in a standardized fashion. Come learn how to design and build REST-based web services using Microsoft ASP.NET WebAPI. We'll start with the architecture of WebAPI and how to quickly create services and then jump into how to customize and secure those services all using web-based standards that any client can consume.

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Speaker Bio

Mark has been involved with software development for over 25 years. He has extensive experience consulting for large companies, providing architectural and debugging help, performance tuning and design advice through his company julmar.com. He is the author and contributor to several open source projects including a popular TAPI wrapper, bioinformatics project for Microsoft Research and MVVM library for XAML applications. He is a Microsoft MVP and teaches and consults for Developmentor and Wintellect - two of the top instructor-led training firms in the business.

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