ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Application calls Web API - asp.net-mvc-4

In the same solution, I have an MVC 4 Web Application project ("the site") and an MVC 4 Web API project ("the service").
In future, I may want to deploy the service on separate server from the site.
Therefore, I would like the site's model class to call the into the service's web methods.
Is this possible ? How can I accomplish this ?

Unless I'm missing something, why don't you just create the site's model as a separate project in your solution. Your site would reference it. The model would make calls to your web API over HttpWebRequest or something similar.

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Web Application vs Web Api project types in Asp.net Core

I know that Asp.Net MVC and Asp.Net Web API were merged into one code in Asp.net Core and they inherit from Controller base class and can all return implementations of IActionResult. it be a View for MVC or Json for web api.
But when i want to create a Asp.net Core project, it offers two templates (Web Application and Web Api ), according to what i said in above, there is no differences between these controllers, why there is two templates? is there any differences that i don't know about it?
The web application template will create folders and import stuff needed for a web application such as jquery, css etc. Web api template will create folders and import stuff for a web api. Also the controllers created by default will have different implementations, for example, web application will be returning views and the views will be created in the appropriate folder.
So although they derive from the same controllers, each type of project requires different dependencies.
If I were you I would go ahead and create one for each type and see the difference.
If you want to have both web api and web application in the same project, use areas. This way your web and api will have separate controllers, folders and models. Also if you want to separate them in the future, it will be easy to do so.
The difference between 2 templates is-
The WebAPI template starts with a Controller class that will allow you to respond to RESTful requests at the /api/Values endpoint.
The Web Application template will give you an MVC framework enabled project with some Razor views, the bootstrap CSS framework and jQuery library installed.
If you want to create project with both MVC and API controllers then I would suggest to go with ASP.NET Core Web Application template and add require dependencies.

Why people mixed ASP.Net MVC and web-api in same project

i need few reason for which people mixed ASP.Net MVC and web-api in same project. when we can develop a full project in mvc only then why web api need to include. also we can host webapi project separately which can server request to MVC and other devs or mobile devs etc.discuss the reason and advantages.
some one answer :
We have recently built a project within MVC and WebApi, we used the WebApi purely because from a Mobile Apps perspective. We allowed the mobile dev guys to call our methods within our MVC application instead of them having to go and create the same function.
WebApi allows to create services that can be exposed over HTTP rather than through a formal service such as WCF or SOAP. Another difference is in the way how WebApi uses Http protocol and makes it truly First class Http citizen.
still the above answer is not clear to me and i think this is not the reason for which people mixed ASP.Net MVC and web-api in same project.
so anyone mind to discuss the actual reason and advantages with example scenario.
thanks
Each have a purpose. Most of the time it's usually caused by legacy code. I know we included documentation which used MVC, but we're fully webapi.
FYI, was MS's auto documentation for WebApi ironically.

If Web API can be used just for Authentication using OAuth 2 in ASP.NET MVC4

I'm working on segregating the authentication part of my ASP.net MVC4 application using DotNetOAuth 2.0, Which will means that one project will do only authentication and send out response,based on response it will have access to other application.
The Idea is to get any application or project added later on use one common authentication process.
First thing came to my mind was building a service, in the process a read a lot about Web API and think it can help to achieve what I'm looking for.
Please suggest if you guys have implemented something like this or whats's the best practice.
Should i go with API or service, any link or sample to direct is appreciated
ASP.NET Web API is also a service - a RESTful service. The choice of using a "Service" although is good your underlying authentication platform will define what you should be using.
WCF is much more than a web service where as a Web API is pure HTTP service.
If you expect all your "applications" to be web based then there is no reason why this cannot be a Web API.
This article might be something that should help you decide on your authentication model: http://www.asp.net/web-api/overview/security/external-authentication-services

Introducing WebAPI in ASP.NET MVC4 application

I am working on an MVC4 application that uses MVC controllers and it is already in production. But a new requirement is to expose some of the functionality as a web service so it is accessible to get/post data programatically by other applications. So I am thinking of introuding WebAPI in this application and use it to provide an iterface to external world as well as use the same service by the views in my application.
My question is how can I use WebAPI in my existing controllers so that I can return Views instead of raw Json data.
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Why do we need web API in MVC? What's the drawback in restful api in mvc?

I am new to ASP.NET Web API. Can anyone please tell me
Why we need Web API?
How it differs from rest full api from MVC ?
When to use MVC4 web api ?
What is restful api in MVC
WebAPI is based on MVC, but has some subtle differences. You need to understand that WebAPI is a separate thing from MVC, and does not require MVC. You can install WebAPI separately, and you can uninstall it from the default MVC templates.
It's true, MS could have built WebAPI directly into the MVC Controllers, but they chose to keep API Controllers separate from MVC Controllers because they really are different ways of dealing with requests and responses.
Examples of things you can do in WebAPI that you can't (or at least not as easily) in MVC include:
Content Negotiation
This allows the calling client to choose the format that data will be returned in, such as XML or JSON.
OData support
This allows the caller to "filter" results on the server without the service method having to specifically support it. For instance, if you want to sort the results by first name, then this can be done simply by specifying OData query parameters
WebAPI provides a lot of power for dealing with data result sets. MVC does not provide that kind of functionality.
You would tend to use WebAPI for things like Ajax requests, or web service based requests that do not require the complexity of WCF.
RESTful API's are not specific to MVC or WebAPI. They're simply a philosophy for how you design your HTTP requests in a service. There's a lot to it really, but I won't go into it.
WCF team merged at Microsoft with MVC team. WCF is not going away, but for simple RESTFUL service call, the MVC Controller were a match made in heaven, and the modification to it allowed for a very easy Web API.
While many of us feel WCF is relatively easy, there are many who fear it and/or don't have/take time to learn it, thus they a. still use ASMX, b. still never adopted services, or NOW with Web API, are c. Very excited that they can very easily get up and running with restful web services.
So really it is a matter of comfort level, adaptation, ability to change and the Web API does have its place. It cannot replace WCF as WCF has advanced configurations with all the bindings and ability to do SOAP and not just REST, which many applications still NEED to have SOAP protocol.
MVC is optimized to serve information to a web browser client. If your client is something else, Web API will make your life easier over the long term.
Web API is a from the ground up re-write of the web stack. At the core it is much cleaner and more flexible than the 12 year old infrastructure that MVC is built on top of. Web API does not yet have the same level of tooling, add-ons, plugins as MVC, but that will come.