MVC.ApiExplorer

Are you a developer who develops RESTFul service with ASP.NET MVC? Have you ever created some new actions and just want a convenient way to make sure that whether your actions are working well or not? The MVC.ApiExplorer is just for you.

MVC.ApiExplorer is a portable, independent component designed to help you explore all actions of controller in an ASP.NET MVC project. It doesn't do the things that unit testing or QA tools would do, so you can still use unit test tools in the development stage. However, when you are cooperating with someone else who develops another part of system that will invokes your API, such as frontend JavaScript or flash, MVC.ApiExplorer may help your partners understand your API quickly.

MVC.ApiExplorer automatically generates a test page which will lists all your actions of controller. Then you can do some test directly on the page. It is an easy, efficient way to save your time and life. All you need to do is add a reference of MVC.ApiExplorer to your project and create a page to explore your API.

Requirements

• .NET Framework 4.0
• ASP.NET MVC3

Get the source code

Since MVC.ApiExplorer is an open source project released under GPL 2 licence. You can checkout the source code here (Mercurial repository).

In case of you are not interested in the source code and just want to get benefit from using the useful tool. You can simply download the binary file or install it by nuget.