What is Web API? It is a Framework for building HTTP services on top of the .NET Framework. To get familiarise yourself with ASP.NET Web API then you can read this post here. What is OData? Open Data Protocol is a web protocol for accessing information via services. It is built upon technologies such as XML and JSON. More on this topic can be read here. What is ASP.NET Web API OData? It is a...
OData Querying Options in ASP.NET Web API
What is OData? Open Data Protocol is a web protocol for accessing information via services. It is built upon technologies such as XML and JSON. OData allows you to exposing the data and metadata in a standard way. OData Querying is a query language which allows the clients to send the OData defined parameters in the query string of the request URI. This post discusses the various OData query...
Facebook Canvas Application in ASP.NET
A number of enhancements made in ASP.NET web tools 2012.12 for web developers which can be found here. In this update you have a new ASP.NET Facebook template which actually uses the open source Facebook C# SDK, which helps the developers to build the Facebook Canvas applications. This post outlines creating simple Facebook Canvas Application using ASP.NET and deploying that to Windows Azure...
Web Publishing Features in Visual Studio 2012
There is no formal build and publishing process for Websites in Visual Studio 2010, it is really a set of files and folders. If you use the web site templates while creating a project in Visual Studio 2010 then publishing experience is vastly different from what available on web application projects. New updates have been released for improving publishing experience in Visual Studio 2010 and...
ASP.NET and Visual Studio loves HTML5
ASP.NET and HTML5 works together and in fact ASP.NET & Visual Studio loves HTML5. You can do everything in HTML5 using ASP.NET server language. This post explains some examples how asp.net works with HTML5.
Example:
Using new HTML5 capabilities in ASP.NET File upload control, First thing remove the text after html in DOCTYPE tag in your aspx page then your document is HTML5.
Understanding the ASP.NET Programming Models
This post helps you to decide what programming model is right for you to start writing applications in ASP.NET. Using ASP.NET you can build great web applications. ASP.NET offers three models to build the web applications. The models are ASP.NET Web Forms ASP.NET MVC ASP.NET Web Pages The three models built on top of ASP.NET core web platform. Each model is ASP.NET. Each model creates and...
ASP.NET Web Forms 4.5 new features in Visual Studio 2012
This post discuss ASP.NET Web Forms 4.5 features, Web Forms in 4.5 allows you to build dynamic web sites quickly and easily. Web Forms generates much cleaner code on client-side with Unobtrusive Validation in this version. You can also build data-centric applications easily with data-binding features. Typical Web Form which contains more fields and validation controls can generate more code on...
Single Page Applications using ASP.NET
What is Single Page Application? Single Page Application is an architecture for web applications. It combines the best of web and desktop, built with HTML5 and JavaScript.Single Page Applications are rich and responsive. You do not need any browser plug-ins needs to install for this architecture, it is a standard web technology that is going to work on any device, operating system and browser...
What’s new in Visual Studio 2011 and ASP.NET 4.5
This post discuss about features in upcoming version of ASP.NET and Visual Studio. Most of the features are around HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. It also discuss about tools and abilities that required to built the modern websites. I am summarizing the MadsKristensen presentation on What’s new in Visual Studio 2011 and ASP.NET 4.5. HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript Adding audio and video tags is...
ASP.NET Web API
ASP.NET Web API is Framework for building for building HTTP services on top of the .NET Framework. It ships with ASP.NET MVC 4. You can install the ASP.NET MVC 4 from here. ASP.NET Web API is a integrated Framework resulted in joint effort from WCF and ASP.NET teams. WCF REST is now replaced by ASP.NET Web API. You can read the post to migrate your existing WCF Web API to ASP.NET...