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Data Transfers With Web API Batching and Protobuf
This article demonstrates how to setup up a Web API service which supports default batching as well as a custom Protobuf batch handler. Protobuf is used because it is the fastest and best serialization library which exists for .NET applications. CRUD operations are supported. Batching can be used to send multiple requests in a single […]
Using Web API with a Nest elasticsearch backend
This article demonstrates how to create a Web API RESTful service and use Elasticsearch as the persistence infrastructure. Nest is used to access Elasticsearch store. Simple CRUD is supported in the controller. code: https://github.com/damienbod/WebAPIRestWithNest Update 2014.09.28: updated all NuGet packages and fixed NEST, breaking changes in version 1 Structure The Application structure is based on […]
Exploring Web API Exception Handling
In this article, exception handling is explored for Web API. The standard features from Web API 2 are shown as well as the global exception handling released in version 2.1. code: https://github.com/damienbod/WebApi2_1ExceptionHandling Using the HttpResponseException class The following two examples demonstrates how the HttpResponseException class can be used in simple action methods. The HttpStatusCode enum […]
Using Protobuf-Net Media Formatter with Web API 2
The example shows how to setup a Web API 2 service using Protobuf-Net as it Media Formatter and a HttpClient which gets and deserializes the response using Protobuf-Net. Protobuf is choosen because it’s the fastest Media Formatter at present. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/WebApi2WebApiContribProtobuf Web API 2 Server The server is just a basic Web API MVC 5 […]
Web API 2 Using ActionFilterAttribute, OverrideActionFiltersAttribute and IoC Injection
ActionFilters are a great way to add extra functionality to your Web API service. This article shows examples of how the ActionFilters work together, how the filters can be overrided and how the filters can be used together with an IoC. The diagram underneath shows how the filters are called in the Web API lifecycle. […]
using SQLite with Entity Framework 6 and the Repository Pattern
In this post, a Data access layer is implemented using the repository pattern together with entity Framework 6 and SQLite as a database. The post continues on from Getting started, using SQLite with .NET UPDATE 02.03.2014: Using the new SQLite version 1.0.91.3 now with the SQLite provider. The xml app configuration needs to be changed […]
Windows Service with Self Hosted Wep Api 2
This is a simple example of a windows backend service which hosts a Web Api 2 service. The application is deployed using WiX. The application can then be used as a backend for a simple game with different UIs, for example an android App, MVC 5 web application, or an WPF UI application. The application […]
Self Hosted Web Api using Owin and Unity, Nuget Package Documentation
This is the documentation for the nuget package Unity.SelfHostWebApiOwin. The package is dependent on Katana 2. The code can be found here: Example, how to use: https://github.com/damienbod/HelloWorldUnityWithSelfHostedOwin Source code: https://github.com/damienbod/SelfHostWebApiWithOwinAndUnityUsingNuget How to create an application using the nuget package: Step 1: Create a Console application. This will be used to start the application or could […]
SelfHost WebApi with Owin and unity using a Nuget package
This post continues in from the previous blog Self Host WebApi with Owin and Unity The blog project and nuget package can be downloaded from here: nuget: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Unity.SelfHostWebApiOwin code: https://github.com/damienbod/SelfHostWebApiWithOwinAndUnityUsingNuget In this blog, a nuget packet will be created, so unity can be used with a self hosted web Api easily. What is required in […]
Self Host WebApi with Owin and Unity
Using Unity together with a WebApi application and OWIN Hosting is a little bit more complicated compared to the standard WebApi and Unity. This blog shows how to host ASP.NET Web API in a console application, using OWIN to self-host the Web API framework and Unity as an IoC. The following steps need to be […]
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