What’s the difference between WCF Web API and ASP.NET Web API

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Ive done a little more reading around this and found a few pages by MS people on this:

http://wcf.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=How%20to%20Migrate%20from%20WCF%20Web%20API%20to%20ASP.NET%20Web%20API :

The WCF Web API abstractions map to ASP.NET Web API roughly as follows

WCF Web API -> ASP.NET Web API

  • Service -> Web API controller
  • Operation -> Action
  • Service contract -> Not applicable
  • Endpoint -> Not applicable
  • URI templates -> ASP.NET Routing
  • Message handlers -> Same
  • Formatters -> Same
  • Operation handlers -> Filters, model binders

and http://wcf.codeplex.com/discussions/319671

The integrated stack supports the following features:

  • Modern HTTP programming model
  • Full support for ASP.NET Routing
  • Content negotiation and custom formatters
  • Model binding and validation
  • Filters
  • Query composition
  • Easy to unit test
  • Improved Inversion of Control (IoC) via DependencyResolver
  • Code-based configuration
  • Self-host

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