Building a Web API 2 project from scratch using OWIN/Katana .NET Part 1

Introduction

If you’re a .NET developer then you must have come across the new light-weight web framework standard called OWIN. Its implementation by Microsoft in .NET is called Katana. We’ve looked at OWIN/Katana on this blog already starting here. I won’t go through the same exact same topic in this new series. Instead we’ll concentrate on the basic components that are required at a minimum to build a functioning, platform independent Web API 2 project.

If you’ve read other posts on this blog then you’ll know about my preference for web services as opposed to shiny GUI development á la ASP.NET MVC. Also we’ll be looking into other Web API 2 features in OWIN later on so this will be a good foundation.

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