Joydip Kanjilal - ASP.NET Web API: Build RESTful web applications and services on the .NET framework

Joydip Kanjilal is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in ASP.NET, a speaker, and the author of several books and articles. He has over 16 years of experience in the IT industry, with more than 10 years using Microsoft .NET and its related technologies. He was selected as the MSDN Featured Developer of the Fortnight a number of times and also as the Community Credit Winner by www.community-credit.com several times. He has authored the following books:

He has also authored more than 250 articles for some of the most reputable sites, such as www.msdn.microsoft.com, www.code-magazine.com, www.asptoday.com, www.devx.com, www.ddj.com, www.aspalliance.com, www.aspnetpro.com, www.sql-server-performance.com, and www.sswug.com. A lot of these articles have been selected at www.asp.netMicrosoft's official website on ASP.NET.

He has years of experience in designing and architecting solutions for various domains. His technical strengths include C, C++, VC++, Java, C#, Microsoft .NET, Ajax, WCF, REST, SOA, Design Patterns, SQL Server, Operating Systems, and Computer Architecture.

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I am thankful to the entire team at Packt Publishing for providing me the opportunity to author this book. I am also thankful to my wife, Sabita Kanjilal, for her encouragement throughout this project, as well as Shaik Tajuddin, Prithwish Ganguli, and my other family members for their continued support.

Santhosh Aravalli has over 10 years of programming experience in working with Microsoft technologies. In his professional career, he has developed solutions ranging from enterprise web applications to SOA applications, primarily using the Microsoft.NET platform. He has worked across many industry domains, including financial, mortgage, retail, and logistics companies in Chicago and the Los Angeles metro area. He has numerous industry certifications, including MCAD, MCTS, and MCPD and is on his way to get his MCSD shortly. He graduated from the Kakatiya University in India with a degree in Computer Science & Engineering.

In his spare time, he practices meditation, collects aphorisms, visits the library, watches TED Talks, and works on his pet projects.

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Chandana N. Athauda is currently employed at Brunei Accenture Group (BAG) Networks, Brunei. He serves as a Technical Consultant and focuses on adopting new technologies toward solid solutions. He has been working professionally in the IT industry for more than 12 years (he's also an ex-Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and Microsoft Ranger for TFS). His roles in the IT industry have spanned the entire spectrum from programming to technical consulting. Technology has always been a passion for him. In his spare time, Chandana enjoys watching association football.

If you would like to talk to Chandana about this book, feel free to write to him at <> or tweet him at @inzeek.

I dedicate this book to my son, Binuk, and also in memory of my father, Samson.

Anand Narayanaswamy , an ASPInsider, works as a freelance writer based in Trivandrum, Kerala, India. He was a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) from 2002 to 2011 and has worked as the Chief Technical Editor for www.ASPAlliance.com for a period of five years.

Anand has worked as a technical editor for several popular publishers, such as Sams, Addison-Wesley Professional, Wrox, Deitel, Packt Publishing, and Manning. His technical editing skills have helped the authors of Sams Teach Yourself the C# Language in 21 Days , Core C# and .NET , Professional ADO.NET 2 , ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts in Action , and Internet and World Wide Web ( Fourth Edition ) to fine-tune the content.

He has also contributed articles for Microsoft's Knowledge Base, www.c-sharpcorner.com, www.developer.com, and wwwcodeguru.com, and has delivered podcast shows.

Anand runs his own blog at Learnxpress (www.learnxpress.com) and provides web hosting (www.netans.com) and blog installation services.

Pavel Volgarev is a software engineer with several years of experience in working with Microsoft technologies and developing for the Web. The majority of his time includes working with languages and technologies such as C#, ASP.NET MVC, RESTful Web Services, as well as HTML5-related APIs and Rich Internet Applications (RIA). He is also very keen about web design, UX, interaction design, and typography.