Honestly I know nothing about either technology. So I am not going to confuse them :)
>From a controller POV they are very similar.
>For MVC you subclass the System.Web.Mvc.Controller.
>For WebApi it's System.Web.Http.ApiController
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>But, although they are similar don't confuse the two.
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>>If I understand Craig correctly and a little bit of MVC is that WebApi uses the concept of 'routing'; so does MVC. Or maybe I should not even be commenting here :)
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>>>Sorry, I think that's a bit misleading. MVC is (as it's name implies :-} ) essentially a server based implementation of Model/View/Controller whereas WebApi is just about fielding HTTP requests for data.
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>>>>Correct. WebAPI is "MVC like". It's not exactly the same, but similar.
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>>>>This may be more introductory
https://mva.microsoft.com/en-us/training-courses/web-api-design-jump-start-8689?l=BMxSvaH1_3804984382>>>>
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>>>>>Thank you. The reason I asked is I want to be sure that I am going through the right course in Pluralsight to learn how to do it. For example there is a course "Introduction to the API.NET Web API" which has not "MVC" in the title. So I am wondering .... I just wish they had a very basic one but most of them are for the intermediate level.
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