How to Use OWIN to Self-Host ASP.NET Web API?
In a Service Oriented architecture where there are multiple services serving the request from different clients it becomes imperative to add additional capabilities to these services and allow the Services to describe itself. What is meant by Self-Hosting? Self Hosting is a term used commonly to host a web Application or a Backend Service in a custom exe like console application instead of hosting it in IIS or some other exe. It is normally done to reduce the bulkiness and additional overhead which comes with external hosting platforms. What is OWIN? OWIN stands for Open Web Interface for .NET which basically acts as a abstraction between the Web Application and the Web Server so this means that Web Application is no more tightly bound to the Web Server which is hosting the application. OWIN provides some standard API through which the Web Server can communicate with the Web Application. It also provides some middleware functionality through which it is possible to add pipe...