Traditional WebAPI is inefficient during transactions that take long durations. Below are some popular alternatives to RESTFul API. Webhooks There is a client that registers with interested events and callback URL with the server. The client tells the server the client’s URL that the server POST updates to. When an event happens, […]
Azure hosted .NET web application
I needed a small application that manages attendance for a large people management / church management system known as RockRMS. We have this Rock system running in Azure hosted on a VM and using a SQL Database. There were some functionalities lacking in the Rock system and so I created this small extension application and deployed […]
.Net Core REST API
This is a reference document created for using .Net Core in RESTful services. Some common practices and concepts are discussed here along with a sample project below. The project is a basic web api with minimal services implemented. It was created to be used as a template for multiple RESTful service projects that were to […]
ASP.NET Core, Angular2 on Azure using OAuth
This is a simple app that is hosted on Azure. It uses ASP.NET Core with Angular2 front end and WebAPI on the back. The site and database are hosted on Azure and use Azure’s EasyAuth (link tbd) authentication service. This service allows for user login using their Microsoft, Google or Facebook accounts. The app has […]
ASP.NET MVC, WEBAPI, SQL, Unit Test and EF on Azure
This is a sample project that contains the following: ASP.NET MVC (4.6) ASP.NET WEBAPI SQL (SQL SERVER 2014) ENTITY FRAMEWORK (5) UNIT TESTS All is deployed on Azure here: http://samplewidgets.azurewebsites.net/ This is a project I use as kind of a template for other projects that use similar technologies and frameworks. I’ve also used it to […]
An overview of MVC 5 and Web API
Some general notes on MVC5 and WebAPI… The MVC pattern is been in computer science since 1979, known then as the Thing-Model-View-Editor. The Model: A set of classes that describes the data you’re working with as well as the business rules for how the data can be changed and manipulated The View: Defines how […]