Category Web

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 […]

Multiple ViewModels in a single MVC View

This post shows how to use multiple models in a single view. The models can be used in separated forms or together in one form. You could use each child model with a separate ajax post if required. Only properties in the parent class affect the child models, but a property in a child model […]

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. […]

Creating an MVC5 App with Unity, SLAB and Attribute Routing

This posts explains how to set up an MVC5 application using Unity 3 and Semantic Logging (SLAB). Attribute Routing is used for the controllers. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/MVC5UnitySlab Adding Unity 3 to the MVC5 project Add the NuGet packages to the MVC5 project. Now add the start up logic in the UnityConfig file in the App_Start folder. […]

MVC WEB HTTP, HTTPS Application Monitoring Tools

This is just a collection of links, tools for monitoring, testing, tracing, debugging ASP.NET applications. When I have time I’ll evaluate each of the different tools. Health Monitoring and ASP.NET MVC http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb398933.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/x28wfk74.aspx http://odetocode.com/blogs/scott/archive/2009/10/12/health-monitoring-and-asp-net-mvc.aspx http://maxivak.com/asp-net-mvc-error-logging/#health Log exceptions with Health Monitoring in ASP.NET MVC3 Health Monitoring with ASP.NET MVC http://www.asp.net/web-forms/tutorials/deployment/deploying-web-site-projects/logging-error-details-with-asp-net-health-monitoring-cs How I Over-Engineered the ASP.NET Health Monitoring Feature […]

Loading a dynamic list in an ASP.NET Core MVC View

This example shows how to create a dynamic list in MVC application. An input event sends an ajax http Get to the controller, the data is created and sent back to the view. The input event uses the jquery.unobtrusive-ajax.js jQuery library to send the http Get to the server. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/MvcDynamicDropdownList History 2018-06-14 Updated to […]

SignalR Messaging with console server and client, web client, WPF client

The code in this post is a basic example of a SignalR messaging system. I wanted to create an example which works for 3 client types, WPF, Web and Console. It is built upon the hello worlds provided on the asp.net/signalR website. The hub was then changed to add 3 methods, a simple method with […]

Slab Logging with an IoC Container

Slab Logging or Semantic Logging is part of the Microsoft Enterprise Library 6. In this post, a wrapper framework will be used to log and use EventSource classes. The EventSource can then be used with an IoC container without requiring static constructors. We don’t want to create a wrapper class for each EventSource. Static methods […]

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 […]