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Still getting my head around this early morning (in Europe timezone) announcement on ScottGu’s blog: ASP.NET MVC, Web API, Razor and Open Source. Some of you might remember that almost 3 years ago the announced that ASP.NET MVC v1 was being released under the MS-PL license, thus making it opensource. That turned out to be just a source snapshot of each public release, and were not accepting contributions, so, a “partial” commitment to open source. This time is different: the source code is available from the “live” repository the ASP.NET team is working on, and they are going...

As you may or may not have heard, yesterday WCF Web API preview 6 has been released. If you never heard about it I recommend you read the quick introduction on CodePlex, but basically it is a facility that helps you expose your services over the web, taking advantage of the richness of the HTTP protocol, in a RESTful way (vs using SOAP or other abstraction layers). Getting started resources on Web API To quickly get started with it you can download the code and samples, and download the compiled CHM for a more conceptual and step...