This deck is the one I used at DevIntersections 2014 in Orlando for my Web API talk.

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Building Restful Services by Using
ASP.NET WebAPI & Entity Framework
Brady Gaster
bradyg@microsoft.com
@bradygaster
bradygaster.com

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Introduction
 Overview
 New features in Entity Framework 6
 Enabling and Running Entity Framework Migrations
 Using Entity Framework to Update Database Structure
 New features in ASP.NET Web API
 Scaffolding Web API using new Visual Studio 2013 Features
 Fixing Common Web API Serialization & Circular Reference Issues
 Web API & OData (and LinqPad for good measure!)
 Accessing Web APIs from Native Code
 Accessing Web APIs from HTML
 Questions
 Let’s hold them until the end, as there’ll be time for discussion

3. Demo
Reverse-engineering a Database to Code First Entities

4. Demo
Enabling and Running EF Migrations

5. Demo
Updating Table Structure using EF Migrations

6. Demo
A New Web API Help Page

7. Demo
Controlling Your Web API Formatters

8. Demo
Scaffolding a Web API Controller from an EF Entity

9. Demo
Mitigating Circular References

10. Demo
Scaffolding a Web API OData Controller

11. Demo
Querying OData

12. Demo
Accessing a REST Endpoint from Native Code

13. Demo
Accessing a REST Endpoint from HTML

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Final Comments
 Web API is REST on ASP.NET
 Entity Framework 6.1
 Code First Generation from Existing Databases
 Need to reference EF 6.1 in your project to enable the tooling
 Web API Configuration
 Pick your formatters wisely, according to needs
 Use JSON.NET and EF attributes to control de/serialization
 New scaffolding features in VS 2013 make life easier

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References
 Web API on ASP.NET
http://www.asp.net/web-api
 Entity Framework on MSDN
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/ef.aspx
 Visual Studio Toolbox on Channel 9
http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Visual-Studio-Toolbox

16. Questions?
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