Say, you are are working on a web application that includes Web Api and a client component, such as Angular. It is time for you to deploy the app onto front facing web server in DMZ. Your friendly security guy comes over and say “You cannot reach into our database server from DMZ. Figure something …
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In this post I will describe in detail how to perform integration tests on Web Api controllers, including routes and authentication. I am going to use the same Angular MVC application I used in many of my Angular posts. In this application I use Structure Map dependency resolution, but the same testing approach will apply …
I have been working with Web Api for a number of months. When I switch to version 2, I switched to attribute based routes. In addition to the reasons specified in the article, there is one more reason why I wanted to use the attribute based routes. They provided a very easy and convenient way …
Yesterday I spoke at Visual Studio Live event in Chicago. I presented two talks, really on the same topic – building web applications with TypeScript and Angular. My demos and presentations actually touched on a number of other technologies – Entity Framework, Web Api, ASP.NET MVC. I wanted to post the slides and demos. Build …
I had an interesting problem to study today. The business problem is quite simple. I want to allow users to enter a number of items on a screen that are recursively related. To illustrate here is what I have in mind Item 1 Item 1.1 Item 1.2 Item 1.2.1 Etc.. I do not want to …
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I blogged here a long time ago about one way to deal with direct object references in ASP.NET MVC application. Today I want to describe my solution to the same problem in an Angular application that is using ASP.NET Web Api for server data access. Core approach is still the same, and I will still …
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Web Api technology is not like ASP.NET MVC, even though the two are often used together. Although most people probably host Web Api inside IIS, and I do as well, Web Api does not take dependency on System.Web or IIS. This allows you to self-host Web Api 2.0 application in your own process, such as …
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I blogged a long time ago about a pattern on how to show reports in an ASP.NET MVC application. I have received a lot of request to share code, but I have lost the source code when I reimaged my machine. Rather than recreating this from scratch, I decided to take a more advanced route …
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One thing that every business app eventually needs is an ability to search for something and show results using paging. The reason for that is that too many rows in search result set can bring any application to its knees. Hence, you should always page search results. If you are building a web application, there …
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First I would like to talk about using MVC views (CSHTML files) for Angular views. In my option, I like powerful features that MVC views bring to the table. I can for example, use my models to generate input controls and validation messages on the server automatically. More on that subject in subsequent posts. I …
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