ASP.NET Web API is a solid communications framework, and many applications can benefit from breaking free of IIS by including an embedded ASP.NET Web API server.

Mixing and matching tools like this gives PHP developers a path to ASP.NET development and its Razor inline code options—an effective hybrid development model.

Currently, reusing web forms and user controls in multiple ASP.NET projects requires copying the associated aspx and ascx pages. You can put web controls in separate assemblies, but you lose the ...