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The key difference between the terms REST versus RESTful is that REST refers to a philosophy about the architecture and design of web services, while the term RESTful refers to any API that properly ...

To build and execute the programs in this article, you should have Visual Studio 2017 and ASP.NET Core 2.1 or later installed in your system. If you don't have Visual Studio installed, you can get a ...

Back in 2016, I asked Microsoft about the status of OData -- the RESTful API protocol it developed back in 2007 -- because it seemed its initial buzz had tapered off dramatically. I was assured by the ...

There is no sanctioning body or open source linter that can verify if a RESTful API conforms and complies with all applicable REST API naming conventions and best practices. However, REST API ...

Take advantage of authentication and authorization, API keys, rate limiting, CORS, API versioning, and other recommended practices to build secure and robust APIs in ASP.NET Core. Because our APIs ...

Take advantage of API key authentication to control the access of applications and services to your Web APIs in ASP.NET Core. There are several ways to secure your APIs in ASP.NET Core 7. You can use ...