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Creating Web API Hello World
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ASP.NET
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Visual Studio
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01645380
Message ID:
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Yes, (stupid me; sorry).
I have a basic/newbie question (feel free to ignore my questions; Sunday is your day of rest).
Say I create a Web API project that should "receive" two value from a Windows (or some other) application and update something in the database.
What what be (in pseudo code) the endpoint called from the Windows application?

>Looks like the app is running - some things can't be add when, for example, you are debugging ??
>
>>Attached is the image of the menu.
>>
>>>Just add a regular class and paste the code into it. If you are adding yours from scratch then all that matters is that the class be derived from ApiController as in the example....
>>>HTH
>>>
>>>>I wanted to add your example of the ApiController to the project that VS created (for learning/testing). When I right-mouse click on the Controllers folder I don't see how I can add it. The item Controllers is grayed. What am I not understanding?
>>>>
>>>>>> 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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