How to design a public API in ASP.Net? [closed]

Question

I'm currently developing a web application in ASP.Net with SQL Server and I would like to have some sort of public API so that my users can get their data and manipulate it at their own will.

I've never done something like this, can you recomend some guidelines for me to follow?

Answer 1

You are going to want to look into web services. Here is a good article that shows you how to create RESTful WCF services. Uising RESTful services will allow your users to invoke API methods in your service with nice clean URLs.