When a request comes in to your ASP.NET site, it's routed through a series of message handlers (in ASP.NET Web API) or modules (in ASP.NET MVC), each of which performs some operation on the request.

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 ...

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Let’s assume you have implemented a microservices architecture. In an application comprised of microservices, different aspects of incoming requests will be handled by different microservices, all ...

Take advantage of the unit of work design pattern to build flexible, extensible, and reusable data access layers in your ASP.NET Core applications. In most any business application, you will store and ...