Azure API App With ASP.NET WEB API

In this article, we will see how to create Azure Web API with your Visual Studio Tool.

• Concept
• Implementation – Creating API app in Azure.
• Implementation – Create a sample Web API Application in VS 2015 and publish Web API in Azure.

Concept - About

Azure API makes life easier for developers. They can develop, host, and consume APIs in the cloud whether it's on-premises or off-premises.

Implementation – Creating API app in Azure

• Sign in to Azure Management portal.
• Open Azure portal and click on “+”.
• Click on the Search box and then type API App and hit Enter.
  
  
  

• Click on "Create".
  
  
  

• Fill all the required details and use existing resource group or create new resource group accordingly.
  
  
  

• Click on "Create".
• You can see it’s just created.
  
  
  

Implementation – Creating a sample web API application in VS 2015

Here are the steps.

• Open Visual Studio and create a web project with ASP.NET Web application with the name ViralWebApi app.
  
  
  

• Then, choose Empty Template with Web API checkbox checked as shown below.
  
  
  

• Once you click on OK button, create Web API Empty Controller and name that “HomeController”.
  
  
  

• Click on "Add" button and name it as “Home” Controller.
• Then, write a simple method to return a string from the “Get” method by using HTTPGET Verb action.
  
  

• Right click on your project and publish the application on the Azure API App which you just created in the above steps.
• Click on “Publish”, select the existing app which you have just created in the above steps, and then click on OK button and wait until it gets published.
  
  

• Select Microsoft Azure App Service and click on "Next" button. Then, select your Azure account and view by the resource group name and select your API which you have created.
  
  
  

• Now, click on OK button and your API app will publish on to Azure.
• Open the browser with the URL to access the API method.

Summary

This is how you can make the Web AP and publish on Azure.