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Consuming ASP.NET Web API services in Windows 8 C# XAML apps
If you are writing Windows 8 app, chances are that you will need to communicate with some sort of service to retrieve or send data. In this blog post I will show how to set up a basic CRUD ASP.NET Web...
View ArticlePreventing modification of JavaScript objects
Due to its dynamic nature, JavaScript makes it extremely easy to modify objects that you do not own. It also means that anyone can easily modify objects that you have written. This is seemingly a very...
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Downloading files in Windows 8 apps using Background Transfer feature
In this blog post I am going to show how to use Background Transfer feature to download files over HTTP in a Windows Store C#/XAML app. Background Transfer has several advantages over using HttpClient...
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Using TypeScript with AngularJS and Web API
In this post I will show how to use TypeScript together with AngularJS and ASP.NET Web API to write a simple web application that implements a CRUD scenario. TypeScript provides a set of features that...
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Getting started with Bing Maps SDK for Windows Store apps
Bing Maps SDK for Windows Store enables Windows 8 developers to include a rich mapping experience in C#, C++, VB.NET and JavaScript applications. After a couple of beta releases, the SDK finally...
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ASP.NET Web API file download service with resume support
ASP.NET Web API provides out of the box support for streaming binary files to the client. However for more advanced scenarios you need to add custom logic to handle pause/resume functionality by...
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Client certificate authentication in ASP.NET Web API and Windows Store apps
SSL over HTTPS provides a mechanism for mutual server-client authentication. This can be used as an alternative to more commonly used username/password based approach. In this post I am going to show...
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Simple framerate counter for MonoGame games
Fluid and smooth user experience is a key element of any good Windows Store app. If you are writing a game, you most likely will want to measure and display framerate related data (current framerate,...
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Getting started with OData services in ASP.NET Web API
OData is an application-level protocol that has been designed to provide data interaction operations via HTTP. Besides basic data manipulation capabilities (such as adding, deleting and updating) it...
View ArticleArrow function expressions in TypeScript
Along with support for standard function expressions that use the function keyword, TypeScript also introduces a concept of arrow functions. Interestingly this feature is most likely to be included in...
View ArticleHMAC authentication in ASP.NET Web API
In this article I will explain the concepts behind HMAC authentication and will show how to write an example implementation for ASP.NET Web API using message handlers. The project will include both...
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Running ASP.NET Web API services under Linux and OS X
In this blog post I am going to show how you can host ASP.NET Web API services under Gentoo Linux and OS X on top of Mono's ASP.NET implementation. I will use Nginx and FastCGI to communicate between...
View ArticleUsing Redis with ASP.NET Web API
In this article I am going to show how to use Redis as a data store in a ASP.NET Web API application. I will implement a basic scenario that leverages ServiceStack.Redis library and its strongly typed...
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Building reactive XAML apps with ASP.NET SignalR and MVVM
A great portion of mobile applications consumes data from HTTP services. This is usually achieved as a pull scenario in which apps initiate the data flow from the server. In many cases pushing data to...
View ArticleCLR Diagnostics with ClrMD and ScriptCS REPL - ScriptCS.ClrDiagnostics
WinDbg+SOS has been used by .NET developers for years. It is a very powerful profiling/analysis tool that unfortunately is quite hard to use and exposes native-only API. By releasing ClrMD library...
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