Ultimate ASP.NET 5 Web API Development Guide - Review and Add Changes to GitHub - REST API Development Best Practices

The video tutorial covers the use of Data Transfer Objects (DTOs) to prevent over-posting attacks and shape API responses. It explains the use of inheritance to create base classes for DTOs and introduces AutoMapper for data type conversion. The tutorial also discusses implementing generic and specific repositories to handle CRUD operations and emphasizes the importance of refactoring code to use dependency injection, removing direct database context references from controllers.

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