Let's Start
Start Visual Studio and select a new project from the start page. Or from the File menu, select New and then Project. In the Templates pane, select Installed Templates and expand Visual C# node and select web. In the list of project Templates, select ASP.NET Web Application and click OK. And give your Project name Like StudentApp
.

In the new ASP.NET Project dialog, select Web API and Click Ok.

We got StudentApp
(our Application Name) application with Installed all need Files.

Add Model: Click Model Folder, add Student
and ResponseModel
Class within Model Folder Student
Class:
public class Student
{
public int ID { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
public string Address { get; set; }
public string Email { get; set; }
}
ResponseModel Class
public class ResponseModel
{
public string Message { set; get; }
public bool Status { set; get; }
public object Data { set; get; }
}
Actually Student
Class we use for Student
Property and ResponseModel
Class we use for Return Type. we will pass all student
s within ResponseModel
Class. After a few minutes, we will see how to use this Class.
Add Controller: Click Controller Folder, right button click, add click, click Controller and Select Web API 2 Controller, click Add and give your Controller Name (StudentController
).
namespace StudentApp.Controllers
{
public class StudentController : ApiController
{
public ResponseModel Get()
{
ResponseModel _objResponseModel = new ResponseModel();
List<Student> students = new List<Student>();
students.Add(new Student {
ID = 101,
Name="Seam",
Email="seam@gmail.com",
Address="Dhaka,Bangladesh"
});
students.Add(new Student
{
ID = 102,
Name = "Mitila",
Email = "mitila@gmail.com",
Address = "Dhaka,Bangladesh"
});
students.Add(new Student
{
ID = 104,
Name = "Popy",
Email = "popy@yahoo.com",
Address = "Dhaka,Bangladesh"
});
_objResponseModel.Data = students;
_objResponseModel.Status = true;
_objResponseModel.Message = "Data Received successfully";
return _objResponseModel;
}
}
}
And run, give url (/api/student), we can see output: 