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Creating Web API Hello World
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ASP.NET
Category:
Visual Studio
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01645380
Message ID:
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Thank you very much!

>> Like, do I need to know how the routing works, in MVC?
>
>Not if you use attribute routing. It's one (probably the main) advantage. e.g.:
    [RoutePrefix("api/chat")]
>    public class MyChatController : ApiController
>    {
>        [HttpGet]
>        [Route("/greeting")]
>        public HttpResponseMessage SayHello ()
>        {
>            return Request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.OK, "Hello World");
>        }
>        [HttpGet]
>        [Route("/farewell")]
>        public HttpResponseMessage GoodBye()
>        {
>            return Request.CreateResponse(HttpStatusCode.OK, "See you later");
>        }
>    }
So the routing is controlled solely by the RoutePrefix and Route attributes rather than the method names: e.g:
http://mysite.com/api/chat/greeting
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