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. In 2011, Microsoft released ASP.NET ...

Software doing the same thing will cost you a few hundred dollars and use up your computer resources which can be overwhelming, whereas a web-based file conversion service is less than 10 dollars ...

This alternative to Internet Information Services, which Microsoft uses for its own services, delivers modern dynamic web applications on common server platforms or in containers.