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Customizing controller discovery in ASP.NET Web API 20 Aug 2013 | 12:43 am
One of the useful configuration features of ASP.NET Web API is that it allows you to be explicit about the assemblies into which it will look in order to discover controller types. This is especially ...
Message handlers scoped per route in ASP.NET Web API 11 Aug 2013 | 01:49 pm
A lot of Web API functionalities are based around message handlers. The real power of them is that they run for every request and provide an easy mechanism of globally addressing some of the applicati...
Owin middleware, ASP.NET Web API and client’s IP address 1 Aug 2013 | 01:03 am
Not so long ago, we discussed on this blog the possible ways of retrieving the client’s IP address in ASP.NET Web API. With the latest changes in the Web API 2 infrastructure, and the emergence of Owi...
Scriptcs and multiline REPL! 23 Jul 2013 | 11:48 pm
A while ago, we added a killer REPL feature to the scriptcs project. Recently, we followed it up with adding support for one of the most popular requested features – multiline constructs for the REPL....
Building Spotify remote control service with ASP.NET Web API and SignalR 11 Jul 2013 | 11:20 am
I have just published a new article over at my friends from Tech.pro (who have revamped their site this week too, and it looks awesome!). It’s my third one there, and once again we look at utilizing A...
IHttpActionResult – new way of creating responses in ASP.NET Web API 2 30 Jun 2013 | 02:44 pm
In the first version of Web API, you had two ways of creating response from an API action. Either return a specific object instance (or void) and let the Web API pipeline convert that to an HttpRespon...
Overriding filters in ASP.NET Web API vNext 16 Jun 2013 | 08:26 pm
One of the more annoying issues in the current version of ASP.NET Web API, is that it’s very difficult to override global/controller scoped filters at action level. Perhaps you may have logging functi...
Supporting only JSON in ASP.NET Web API – the right way 3 Jun 2013 | 06:28 pm
Sometimes (or perhaps, quite often?) you only need to support JSON in your ASP.NET Web API. In these cases, the ability of Web API pipeline to facilitate various media types is of no value for you – a...
Retrieving the client’s IP address in ASP.NET Web API 23 May 2013 | 02:46 pm
One of the common tasks, for logging or authorization purposes, is to obtain the IP address of the client accessing your Web API. There are different ways to achieve this depending on whether you are ...
scriptcs and using Azure Mobile Services from your scripts 13 May 2013 | 08:33 am
Hopefully by now you have already heard about the sriptcs project, which allows you to write script based applications with C# and Nuget. If not, have a look at the readme and the great introduction p...
