Category Web
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 […]
IIS HTTPS configuration for Team development
This post a collection of information which I found all over the internet. I’m posting it as a reference for myself. I need to set up a development environment where a team of developers can develop multiple projects which use and test Web applications using HTTPS. Step 1: Create a root cert. This will be […]
Web API Tracing with SLAB and Elasticsearch
The article demonstrates how to use Web API Tracing, and trace the data using SLAB, in-process or out-of-process to a flat file or an Elasticsearch sink. Semantic.Logging from Enterprise Library now includes an Elasticsearch sink. The NuGet package also includes an implementation of the IExceptionLogger interface and a logging ActionFilter which logs the data using […]
Web API File Upload with MS SQL SERVER FileTable
This article demonstates how the setup a file upload using Web API and save it to a MS SQL Server database using a FileTable. Because a FileTable is used, the files can be saved directly to the database, without creating an extra stream. The files can be then accessed using the database or directly in […]
Web API File Upload, Single or Multiple files
This article demonstrates file uploads using Web API 2. The examples use the MultipartFormDataStreamProvider class. The controller implementation saves the files in memory first, so for large files or with a lot of HTTP traffic, this is not a good solution. Links to other examples are also included at the bottom of this post. Code: […]
Web API Help Pages
This feature of Web API seems to be still in the alpha phase. Not all required features are implemented, it has NO SUPPORT for self hosted Web API services. A lot of the links about this are old and the most projects examples don’t work with the latest Web API version. The official ASP.NET HOWTO […]
Web API Localization
This article shows how to set up a Web API service which can support multiple languages and keep it simple. When localizing an application, it is important that all texts or references to language specific resources are not directly referenced in your business methods or code. Only the source or the presentation layer should convert […]
MessageHandlers and service Versions in Web API
The article demonstrates how different versions of the same service could be supported or not in a web API. Underneath are good links of different possibilities, which are better for different business scenarios. Depending on the client application/implementation, an update strategy could be implemented using Message Handlers. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/WebAPIVersioningAnd-MessageHandlers Possibility One: The old version of […]
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 […]
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