Asp.net c# restful service example

In this asp.net c# rest web service tutorial you will learn how to develop restful service for their application.

Why Restful so popular

Restful service has been so popular and widely accepted by all developers’ community for following reasons.

It easily allow to communicate different type of web applications that are built on various programming languages
There is no environment dependency; all application can reside in different type of system and still can exchange data
Without revealing internal mechanism security can be implemented easily

RESTful Key Characteristic

An architectural style called REST (Representational State Transfer)

Client-Server
Cacheable
Stateless
Layered
Uniform Interface
HTTP protocol is used

RESTful Service Methods

RESTful service is type of Web services that are lightweight, maintainable, and scalable in nature. Any service which is built on the REST architecture is called a RESTful service. REST service also works on HTTP protocol.

We learn how to create a REST Service with Asp.Net

Get Method Example - This method is used to get a list of all objects (data)
Post Method Example - This method is used for posting a new element to be added in database
Put Method Example - This method is used for posting a element to be updated in database
Delete Method Example - This is used to delete an element from database
Asp.net rest service security example - Learn, how to implement authentication in resetful web api
Testing Web API- Learn how to test Asp.net Web API using Fiddler
Asp.net consume rest web service - Call web api from asp.net client
Calling rest service from c# console application