Diffrence between ASP.Net web api Vs .Net core web api ?

ASP.NET Core

ASP.NET Core is an open-source, cross-platform framework for building modern, cloud-based web apps on Windows, macOS, or Linux.

ASP.NET Core provides the following benefits:

A unified story for building web UI and web APIs.
Architected for testability.
Razor Pages makes coding page-focused scenarios easier and more productive.
Ability to develop and run on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Open-source and community-focused.
Integration of modern, client-side frameworks and development workflows.
A cloud-ready, environment-based configuration system.
Built-in dependency injection.
A lightweight, high-performance, and modular HTTP request pipeline.
Ability to host on IIS, Nginx, Apache, Docker, or self-host in your own process.
Side-by-side app versioning when targeting .NET Core.
Tooling that simplifies modern web development.

ASP.NET Web API

The ASP.NET Web API is an extensible framework for building HTTP based services that can be accessed in different applications on different platforms such as web, windows, mobile etc. It works more or less the same way as ASP.NET MVC web application except that it sends data as a response instead of html view. It is like a webservice or WCF service but the exception is that it only supports HTTP protocol.

ASP.NET Web API Characteristics

ASP.NET Web API is an ideal platform for building RESTful services.
ASP.NET Web API is built on top of ASP.NET and supports ASP.NET request/response pipeline
ASP.NET Web API maps HTTP verbs to method names.
ASP.NET Web API supports different formats of response data. Built-in support for JSON, XML, BSON format.
ASP.NET Web API can be hosted in IIS, Self-hosted or other web server that supports .NET 4.0+.
ASP.NET Web API framework includes new HttpClient to communicate with Web API server. HttpClient can be used in ASP.MVC server side, Windows Form application, Console application or other apps.

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Priyanka Singh7y ago
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ASP.NET Core
ASP.NET Core is an open-source, cross-platform framework for building modern, cloud-based web apps on Windows, macOS, or Linux.

ASP.NET Core provides the following benefits:
- A unified story for building web UI and web APIs.
- Architected for testability.
- Razor Pages makes coding page-focused scenarios easier and more productive.
- Ability to develop and run on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
- Open-source and community-focused.
- Integration of modern, client-side frameworks and development workflows.
- A cloud-ready, environment-based configuration system.
- Built-in dependency injection.
- A lightweight, high-performance, and modular HTTP request pipeline.
- Ability to host on IIS, Nginx, Apache, Docker, or self-host in your own process.
- Side-by-side app versioning when targeting .NET Core.
- Tooling that simplifies modern web development.
ASP.NET Web API
The ASP.NET Web API is an extensible framework for building HTTP based services that can be accessed in different applications on different platforms such as web, windows, mobile etc. It works more or less the same way as ASP.NET MVC web application except that it sends data as a response instead of html view. It is like a webservice or WCF service but the exception is that it only supports HTTP protocol.

Web API

ASP.NET Web API Characteristics

ASP.NET Web API is an ideal platform for building RESTful services.

ASP.NET Web API is built on top of ASP.NET and supports ASP.NET request/response pipeline

ASP.NET Web API maps HTTP verbs to method names.

ASP.NET Web API supports different formats of response data. Built-in support for JSON, XML, BSON format.

ASP.NET Web API can be hosted in IIS, Self-hosted or other web server that supports .NET 4.0+.

ASP.NET Web API framework includes new HttpClient to communicate with Web API server. HttpClient can be used in ASP.MVC server side, Windows Form application, Console application or other apps.
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Amitesh Jaiswal4y ago
Thanks Priyanka For this article
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ravi kumar5y ago
good article thank you
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shiva ksk6y ago
ok ,thanks but i want any "webapi code " is there both scenarios
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Sanjit Kumar Singh7y ago
Thank You Priyanka Singh
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Rajeesh Menoth7y ago
Hi,

Please check the similar thread in SO.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48258090/asp-net-web-api-vs-net-core-web-api
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