Monthly Archives: May 2014

Exploring Web API 2 Caching

This article explores the different possibilities for caching Web API services. At present Microsoft do not support any decent cache solution for Web API. This might change with vNext when MVC and Web API come together as MVC already has an Output Cache for controllers. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/WebAppCacheCow At present, I know of 3 different ways […]

Web API 2 Excel File Export With OAuth2 Implicit Flow

This article demonstrates how to set up a Web API 2 excel file download using OAuth2 Implicit Flow. The application requires an Authorization Server and Identity Server V2 from Thinkteckture and also the excel Media Formatter from WebApiContrib. leastprivilege.com provided a lot of blogs which helped complete this article. Thanks for those blogs. The article […]