What are Web APIs? [1 of 18] | Beginner's Series to: Web APIs | Beginner's Series to: Web APIs

Our beginner's guide to building Web APIs with ASP.NET Core is designed to provide you with the foundation you need to start building Web APIs with .NET in a collection of short, pragmatic collection of videos. In this first video of the series, we'll briefly explain what are Web APIs, why do we need them, and show some examples. Useful Links* NET Videos https://dot.net/videos?WT.mc_id=beginwebapis-c9-cephilli* ASP.NET Web APIs https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/aspnet/apis?WT.mc_id=beginwebapis-c9-cephilli* Create Web APIs with ASP.NET Core https://docs.microsoft.com/aspnet/core/web-api?WT.mc_id=beginwebapis-c9-cephilli Downloads* Download Visual Studio Code: https://aka.ms/webapis/vscode* Download .NET: https://aka.ms/webapis/dotnet* Download Visual Studio 2019: https://aka.ms/webapis/visualstudio