Questions tagged [asp.net-mvc-web-api]
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Web API to Windows Service communication via ZeroMQ
I have an ASP.NET Web API 2 web service. This is the interface customers will use to submit data.
I have a Windows Service running on an internal server. I will be sending the customer's POST data to ...
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One Large API to several microservices vs lots of small APIs each with their own API
I have an application that is beiong split out into a number of services. From a previous question on here, I think that initially JSON/REST is the way to go for communication.
Some of my micro ...
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Migrating large silverlight business application to MVC
I have the task to migrate a large silverlight business application in a new living technology. I had choosed asp.net MVC and web api.
As we know, silverlight uses MVVM design pattern whereas asp.net ...
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What's the most straightforward way to integrate my company's custom authentication with ASP.NET SSO?
My company has a series of WinForms applications that pretty crudely provides authentication by checking usernames and passwords directly against the database (with a little hashing).
I have a fair ...
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.NET MVC authentication to AngularJS to .NET web API advice needed
So i am inheriting a team and a large project that should have been built with a restful back end. For the time it is only reporting and we all agree to build out a web API (separate project) with ...
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My web app uses ASP, but does-it need it?
I’m relatively new to web development, and I’m amazed at the variety of new concepts in the field. I could probably use some help to synthetize.
I have to deal with is a backend written in Delphi, ...
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Where should i put the WebAPI
I've just started the project and I have this sort of parts in my solution
MyApp.Web MVC Web Application
MyApp.Data Class Library
MyApp.Domain Class Library
MyApp.Service Class Library
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Token or ASP.NET Identity based security in ASP.NET Web API 2
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I have a Web API 2 project, without any extension of ASP.NET MVC or ASP.NET projects. The API will only be used to communicate between the server and Windows 8, Windows Phone 8.1 and iOS ...
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How to scratch database that query faster for cloud computing
We are planning to develop a cloud based database driven web application which we would like world to use. Till date at the database side we have used fully normalized way to store the data and use ...
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Is it poor practice to return different data types from alternative Web API endpoints?
Consider a Web API with an endpoint api\LargeItem
A LargeItem is a pretty big object with lots of properties and long strings.
A user can GET any one like so api\LargeItem\1 which returns the ...
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A CLR SQL Server Stored Procedure calling an ASP.NET Web API
We are developing a big system with SQL Server database, ASP.NET Web API 2.2 services and another external services.
We need to load more data on a table while we process the current data on it. To ...
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Securing a Web Api for individual Users
We currently have a web app (.net MVC 5), user's login using their username and password and then we store an encrypted value in a cookie to authenticate them on future requests.
We are now in the ...
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What's the point/Use of writing out just the method signatures for an API in .Net Web Api
I have been asked to write the signatures for and API end points GET/POST/PUT methods. I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around what the point of this is. My co-worker asked if I could do this ...
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Asp.net Web Api Controller design
I am developing services using Asp.Net Web Api. I am debating on design of our controllers.
We have this common scenario where user will be presented with bunch of search field, once he enters the ...
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Implementing internal own authentication
Let me apologize first if this topic is too subjective, or not concrete enough.
I want to implement a login api for an internal web service at my company using asp web api 2. I know how to implement ...
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Calling Web API vs adding reference to underlying dlls [closed]
This is more of an Architecture question, and I want to know all the possible pros and cons of the approach.
In my org, we have an ASP.NET Application say "A", a Web API Project say "W", and ...
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why Web API 2 has RouteConfig.cs file?
I m working on Web API project, and it is using WebApiConfig.cs file to defined routs for Web API.
Web API fold RouteConfig.cs file. I have googled and they say RouteConfig.cs is for MVC routing. It ...
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WebAPI authorisation for other apps
I would like to create a WebAPI application that can serve some of my web sites. My goal is to abstract some common task such as email sending, address resolving etc by providing an API to all of my ...
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REST API design for associations/aggregation
I am building RESTful API that manages persons and lists.
There can be many List and many Person each with its own set of properties. Person can be in zero or more lists, List can contain zero or more ...
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Is RESTFUL API as back-end service one of the best (or suitable) choice for Mobile App? [closed]
I have a background on .NET development, recently I was asked to code back-end service for a mobile app. I had experiences on MVC, and now I'm trying to understand more on Restful Web API.
My ...
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How to manage security of these self hosted web apis, to ensure that the request coming for accessing data is authenticated?
Let's pretend I am going to work on an enterprise application. Say I have 11 modules in the application and I would have to develop Dashboards for every role in the organization for whom I are going ...
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Why Microsoft’s Web API is named as ASP.Net Web API
ASP.Net is Active Server Pages using .Net Framework
Wikipedia says
It was first released in January 2002 with version 1.0 of the .NET Framework, and is the successor to Microsoft's Active Server ...
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Should we call Web API from MVC application in same solution?
I am working on a project in MVC that has mobile application so one thing is clear that we have to use Web API so it can used in mobile application.
After creating API when we started to develop Web ...
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Pure Front end JavaScript with Web API versus MVC views with ajax
This was more a discussion for what peoples thoughts are these days on how to split a web application.
I am used to creating an MVC application with all its views and controllers. I would normally ...
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Best practices for caching search queries
I am trying to improve performance of my ASP.net Web Api by adding a data cache but I am not sure how exactly to go about it as it seems to be more complex than most caching scenarios. An example is I ...
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Web API architecture design
I'm learning and diving into Web API. I've used web services before but not specifically with web API. Below is how I am designing it so far and I was curious on the feedback.
I have a ...
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How to support different API Versions
I am writing a Rest API and am wondering how best to handle supporting the different versions. By this I don't mean how to define a URI as V2 or V3, but rather how to structure the code given that it'...
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Using web api or libraries
We currently have 1 domain and 4 subdomains using 5 different applications. We are programming in asp.net and we have 6 different solution project. 5 applications and 1 solution for shared back-end. ...
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What is the clean way to pass my LoginContext down through the layers to the data access layer?
I have inherited an API implemented using ASP.NET WebApi 2. The actions on the controllers are all like this:
public object Get(long id) {
LoginContext loginDetails = GetLoginDetails();
if (...
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What am I missing in my (mis)understanding of IoC/DI/Castle Windsor?
Okay, so here's how I understand IoC and DI in Web API to work when using Castle Windsor.
Note, though, that my confidence that I understand it as I should, though, falls somewhere between my ...
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Invoking a web service in a Web API Project…in which layer to invoke?
I am using Microsoft ASP.NET Web API 2 and one of my end points has to internally invoke a legacy non-Microsoft web service (not asmx or svc) .
Which layer should I invoke this in?
I currently have :...
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What kind of user authentication do I need in for a restful web api
I am doing a restful web api with asp.net Web API 2
I do not want to use any form of cookies or basic authentication (send user/pass in cleartext thus SSL needed)
I do not use/need claims stuff.
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How to configure these REST API Resources [closed]
I'm still in the design phase of my REST API, and I'm a bit stuck on how to configure the resources. The API will be consumed by mobile devices (Android, iOS, and Windows). Communication through HTTPS....
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Restful WebAPI VS Regular Controllers
I'm doing some R&D on what seems like a very confusing topic, I've also read quite a few of the other SO questions, but I feel my question might be unique enough to warrant me asking. We've never ...
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Is it feasible to change model relationship mappings and properties in Entity Framework CodeFirst at runtime?
Here's the situation. I have an enterprise application that uses EF Codefirst to map POCOs to an existing database. This has been working fine so far. In fact I would say that it's been working really ...
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bad practice to have actions in web api controllers
I was creating a new action for a WebApi controller and tried to create a url using the following:
@Url.RouteUrl("DefaultApi", new { httproute = "", controller = "ClientApi"})
and noticed that the ...
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when is it necessary or when should a controller be async
When is it absolutely necessary for a controller to be async? Should all controllers be async or is it bad practice to make all of them async unless it is necessary.
Just looking for some general ...
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necessary to migrate to Web API from MVC controller
Since the released of Web API, I've been wondering whether it's necessary or helpful to migrate/change MVC controllers to use Web API calls. Since it's hard to describe code I'll show an example of ...
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Is there an advantage to using WCF or WebAPI for mobile?
I'm looking at doing my first mobile development using Mono Touch and Mono for Android. I'd like them to communicate with an ASP.NET MVC 4 site I'm designing. I've worked with WCF and WebAPI in the ...
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project layout using webapi
I have the following project structure I would like to implement. I would like to know if there are any pitfalls to structuring my code this way. It is going to be using Microsoft's WebAPI, an MVC 4 ...
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