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...
Performance Tricks to Metro Style Web Applications
What is web performance? It is actually when does the user perform an action it self and when does those results occur on the screen. The three key factors to web performance is Network, CPU and Memory. The web developer has to think about the above three element to improve the performance of a web application. You can measure your web site performance using windows performance toolkit...
WebSockets in ASP.NET 4.5
This post discuss about using WebSockets in ASP.NET 4.5. You can read this post to get an understanding about WebSockets. This post shows piece of code which uses WebSockets in ASP.NET 4.5 and the code is related to simple chat application. The HTML of Web Form chat application looks as below It contains a text box where you can type your text message and button where it sends a...
Why WebSockets?
WebSockets are required to develop the rich and real time web applications. WebSockets can securely enable the real-time web. Before explaining the need of WebSockets we see what current Web is and it’s limitations.
What is Current Web?
Creating Web Applications with HTML5 WebSockets
WebSockets enables the real-time web where the information is available to the user the moment it is published. WebSockets are standard based, Interoperable across browsers and very simple to use. We got the WebSockets support everywhere it is available on browsers, windows run time, WCF, ASP, IIS etc. This post gives you the basic idea about WebSockets and the technicalities behind this...
Optimizing the website Performance using ASP.NET 4.5
There are so many different ways you can optimize your website performance. You may think why we need to worry about website performance when internet connection speed is growing faster and faster. Just few examples: Google did a test, if their search page is 500ms slower then they are going to lose 20% their traffic. If Amazon runs 100ms slower then there is 1% drop in their sales which is...
Creating Data-driven web apps using ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms
Data binding is simpler and more powerful in ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms.This post discuss about creating Data-driven application using ASP.NET 4.5 preview. It also discuss about different Data access methods, particularly about model access binding features in Web Forms. You need to install Visual Studio 11 Developer preview to use this feature. You can read this post for links to download etc...
Visual Studio 11 Web and .NET 4.5 Developer Preview and ASP.NET 4.5
Three days ago, Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview and .NET 4.5 were announced. You can get the more details from here. You can download the Visual Studio 11 Developer preview from here. You can run Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio 11 developer preview side by side. .NET Framework 4.5 Developer Preview can be downloaded from here Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview...