Building A Restful API In ASP.NET

Let’s have a quick review of ASP.NET MVC Architecture. So when the request arrives at our application MVC Framework hands off that request to an action in a controller, this action most of the time returns view which is then parse by razor view engine and then eventually html markup is return to the client. So in this approach html markup is generated on the server and then return to the client.

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