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Recently we just added the support for CORS in Web API. You can find more information on this from our Channel 9 video . Although the feature is checked in, it’s not officially released yet. Nevertheless, you can try it out using our signed nightly builds...

All the help page samples I’ve shown you so far are pretty much generated at runtime, meaning the help page is generated after you start the application. Today, I’m going to show you that it doesn’t always need to be generated at runtime. In fact, it...

Even though ASP.NET Web API Help Page is implemented using ASP.NET MVC, which won’t work on self-hosted services, most of the code in the package however can be reused to support the generation of Help Page on self host. I’ve created a sample to illustrate...

In this post, I’ll go over some advanced customization scenarios for ASP.NET Web API Help Page . First, I’ll demonstrate how you can enable new functionalities such as displaying the documentation in the <returns> tag by adding a new property to...

ASP.NET Web API Help Page is a useful extension that automatically generates a web-based documentation for you Web APIs. It makes debugging easier because you can copy/paste the information from Help Page to tools like Fiddler, to call your Web API service...

Today we announced the preview for ASP.NET Fall 2012 Update and one of the cool features we added to the update is the Facebook Application Template . This template includes a new library that makes it easier to develop Facebook applications using ASP...

I’m pleased to announce that with the ASP.NET Fall 2012 Update (preview), ASP.NET Web API Help Page is now included by default in the Web API project template. Check it out by downloading the installer available at http://www.asp.net/vnext . To see this...

Samples in ASP.NET Web API Help Page are automatically generated based on your action parameters and return types. They represent the kind of contents that could go into the request or response body. For instance, if you have the Delete action inside...

Now that you have installed the ASP.NET Web API Help Page , I’m going to walk you through some of the basic customizations that you can do to make the help page more personalized. Changing the help page URI By default, the help page is available at /help...

Today, following the announcement of the official release for ASP.NET Web API , we also released a preview for the ASP.NET Web API Help Page , which is available as a NuGet package. This package automatically generates help page content for Web APIs on...

When you create a Web API service that needs to store large amount of unstructured data (pictures, videos, documents, etc.), one of the options you can consider is to use Windows Azure Blob Storage. It provides a fairly straightforward way of storing...

Couple days ago, Henrik brought this post into my attention - It’s a nice article that describes how you can use a chrome extension, PostMan , to debug and test an ASP.NET Web API service. I played around with the extension and liked the fact that it...

In the previous post , I briefly introduced you to the IApiExplorer which can be used to generate documentation, machine-readable metadata, or a test client. In this blog post, we’re going to take a closer look at the ApiExplorer, which is the default...

IApiExplorer is an abstraction layer that allows you to obtain a description of the structure of your Web APIs. This information can be used to produce documentation, machine-readable metadata, or a test client. ApiExplorer is the default implementation...