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ASP.NET Web API Outside of IIS

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In this chapter, I'll go beyond the classic scenario of hosting ASP.NET Web API on IIS. ASP.NET Web API, despite its name, is entirely independent from the ASP.NET runtime. You can embed Web API into almost any .NET process, namely console applications or Windows services, as well as class libraries that can be plugged into an existing pre-defined architecture in Microsoft Azure.

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Wojcieszyn, F. (2014). ASP.NET Web API Outside of IIS. In: ASP.NET Web API 2 Recipes. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-5981-7_2

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