Web API provides the necessary action methods for HTTP GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE operations. You would typically pass a single object as a parameter to the PUT and POST action methods.

Flexible RESTful API design So, we have seen in this RESTful APIs tutorial that the removal of the 10 oldest records from a database is a poor use of the DELETE method, and the incrementation of a ...

The HTTP verb named PATCH can be used for partial updates, i.e., when you would like to update just a few fields of a resource. While you could update a resource “partially” using HTTP PUT, by sending ...

Eric Vogel covers how to use the new Web API 2 routing attributes to create a Web service in Part 1 of this series.