This article demonstrates how to search for data in Elasticsearch using parent and child documents. The documents are all saved inside the same index and the child documents are saved on the same shard using the parent id as the routing. As in the previous ElasticsearchCRUD tutorials, an autocomplete in used to search for the […]

This article shows how to transfer data from a MS SQL Server 2014 to Elasticsearch. The MS SQL Server is accessed using Entity Framework (Code first from a database). Elasticsearch documents are created using ElasticsearchCRUD and inserted in bulk requests. The Entity Framework entities can be used directly in ElasticsearchCRUD. Either the whole entity including […]

This article demonstrates how to create Elasticsearch documents with NESTED objects using jQuery, jTable and moment.js in the MVC Razor View, and using MVC, ElasticsearchCRUD and Elasticsearch as the backend. The SearchController provides all CRUD Actions so you can experiment with the 1 to n entities, or the Elasticsearch nested documents. Not all Elasticsearch clients […]

This article demonstrates how to do a full text search using jQuery Autocomplete with an ASP.NET MVC application and an Elasticsearch search engine. CRUD operations are also implemented for Elasticsearch ( ElasticsearchCRUD ). To download and install Elasticsearch, use the instructions here. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/WebSearchWithElasticsearch Other tutorials: Part 1: ElasticsearchCRUD introduction Part 2: MVC application search […]

The article explains how to use the ElasticsearchCRUD NuGet package. ElasticsearchCRUD is designed so that you can do CRUD operations for any entity and insert, delete, update or select single documents from Elasticsearch. The package only includes basic search or query possibilities. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/ElasticsearchCRUD NuGet Package: https://www.nuget.org/packages/ElasticsearchCRUD/ Issues: https://github.com/damienbod/ElasticsearchCRUD/issues Tutorials: Part 1: ElasticsearchCRUD introduction Part […]

This article demonstrates how OData Functions can be used together with entities which have simple keys, composite keys, entity collections or used as plain simple global functions. Part 1 Getting started with Web API and OData V4 Part 1. Part 2 Web API and OData V4 Queries, Functions and Attribute Routing Part 2 Part 3 […]

This post is a simple article which shows how the use the Policeman.Guard NuGet package. The package can be used for simple checks in your methods to guard against null arguments, required conditions or whatever. Code: https://github.com/damienbod/Policeman NuGet Package: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Policeman.Guard/ The Requires guard method can be used to do any type of method checks. You […]

This article demonstrates how to call or map Web API methods with different types of parameters using XML, Json and Urlencoded formats. It shows how simple parameters, objects parameters and array parameters can be sent either in the body of the Http request or in the Url itself. This all works per default in Web […]

This article demonstrates how batching can be used with a Web API OData V4 service and an OData C# client. This blog is part 10 of the Web API OData series. Batching can be used to optimize network usage. Batching makes it possible to send many HTTP requests as a single multiple mixed request. The […]

This article shows how easy it is to extend Web API and provides an example of GZIP compression. Ove Andersen has created a cool NuGet package which makes it very is to use GZIP compression with any Web API Http request/response. This package implements both client and server message handlers which can be used for […]