ASP.NET Web API is a solid communications framework, and many applications can benefit from breaking free of IIS by including an embedded ASP.NET Web API server. In 2011, Microsoft released ASP.NET ...

Visual Studio 2013 came with a new version of Web API. The Web API 2.1 update includes a host of new features, including support for Binary JSON. Learn how to leverage BSON by building a Web API 2.1 ...

App.config and Web.config files are a great way to add flexibility to your .NET application without having to modify code in the future. They also allow clients or end users to make configuration ...

There are two ways in which you can inject logic in the request pipeline of an ASP.NET application — HttpHandlers and HttpModules. An HttpModule is a component that is part of the ASP.NET request ...

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CAS is the Central Authentication Service offered by the Identity and Access Management team within Purdue System Security (PSS). Unlike web server assisted authentication and authorization, it ...