In the fast growing world of APIs and microservices, finding just the right API when you are developing a web, or mobile application, is always a tedious task.

JSON-LD will play an important part in making semantic web ideals more realizable for developers. JSON is the lingua franca of API formats, and JSON-LD provides an easy entry point for adding ...

The Web API framework allows developers to quickly create services using MVC-like conventions. It offers the flexibility of creating REST style services, and serving up data in a variety of formats, ...

ASP.NET Web API 2.1 is currently the latest release from Microsoft. It offers a variety of new features, including the new BSON format. It can be utilized like other formats, but offers a lightweight ...

JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) is becoming a popular data interchange format for modern web applications. Many of the mainstream microblogging and social networking web sites use it to supply ...

Many Web API designers claim their are RESTful, but their APIs have little in common with REST. What can be done to make a web service API truly RESTful?

Learn how to use a web API from within an Android app using Retrofit. Get posts from social media, store data on the cloud, and much more!

One issue with having so many RESTful web services APIs is that their designers simply don't have a solid grasp of RESTful principles. In this RESTful APIs tutorial, we will look at the philosophy ...

Web API doesn’t allow you to pass multiple complex objects in the method signature of a Web API controller method — you can post only a single value to a Web API action method.