Use custom-built .NET Framework 4.0 classes to connect an ASP.NET Web application to a SQL Server 2012 database.

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.

Take advantage of the open source library Serilog to log your ASP.NET Core application’s data to SQL Server or another database target.

Using exception filters in ASP.NET Web API Exception filters are filters that can be used to handle unhandled exceptions that are generated in your Web API controller methods.

Message: Unable to connect to SQL Server session database. Trace: at System.Web.SessionState.SqlSessionStateStore.ThrowSqlConnectionException(SqlConnection conn, Exception e) ...