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Deep Dive into OWIN Katana

by kusnaditjung

Web specification and framework

Building an Angular 13 Application with .NET 6 (Global Market) - Part 1

by Fred Song (Melbourne)

Build a simple finance application with Angular 13 and .NET 6

ASP.NET Web Api: Unwrapping HTTP Error Results and Model State Dictionaries Client-Side

by John Atten

When working with ASP.NET Web Api from a .NET client, one of the more confounding things can be handling the case where errors are returned from the Api. Specifically, unwrapping the various types of errors which may be returned from a specific API action method, and translating the error content in

ASP.NET Core and Web API: A Custom Wrapper for Managing Exceptions and Consistent Responses

by Vincent Maverick Durano

This article will talk about how to implement a custom wrapper for your ASP.NET Core and Web API applications for managing exceptions, providing meaningful and consistent responses to consumers.

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Intended Solutions for Intentional Limitations of Strongly Typed OpenAPI Client Generators

by Zijian

Use the codes generated by OpenApiClientGen in real world applications

Generate Typed Forms of Angular Reactive Forms from Swagger / OpenAPI definitions

by Zijian

Construct Angular Reactive Forms of client data models through generated Angular TypeScript codes

Generate Typed FormGroup of Angular Reactive Forms with ASP.NET Core Web API

by Zijian

Construct Angular Reactive Forms of client data models through generated codes

Tour of Heroes: MAUI, with ASP.NET Core 8 Backend

by Zijian

A series of articles comparing programmer experiences of Angular, Aurelia, React, Vue, Xamarin and MAUI

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.NET Core Microservices in the Enterprise: Logger as Microservice

21 Aug 2021 by freedeveloper

Use the logger system as other Microservices in your eco-system

.NET Core On Mac - Building An ASP.NET Core App With Web API, EF, PostgreSQL And Running It On Docker

14 Nov 2016 by Vincent Maverick Durano

A quick demo tutorial on how to setup .NET Core on Mac and creating a simple ASP.NET Core app that talks to PostgreSQL database, and running it on Docker.

.NET Core RESTful or WebAPI MVC Web Application

7 Aug 2017 by Bart-Jan Brouwer

Modern design example for .NET Core MVC with RESTful service

.NET Core Web API : The Least You Need To Know (Part 2 of 2)

20 May 2020 by raddevus

Post to your Web API via the XmlHttpRequest - learn how to set up headers, data for body, etc.

.NET Core Web API: The Least You Need To Know (Part 1 of 2)

20 May 2020 by raddevus

A quick article to walk you through building your .NET Web API and posting to it via AJAX (using JSON)

A Beginner's Tutorial for Understanding and Implementing ASP.NET Web API

26 Sep 2013 by Rahul Rajat Singh

In this article we will talk about the basics of ASP.NET Web API.

A Beginner's Tutorial on ASP.NET WebApi Hosting(IIS Hosting and Self Hosting)

26 Dec 2013 by Rahul Rajat Singh

In this article we will look at the various ways of hosting ASP.NET WebApi.

An ASP.NET Application using Typescript, AngularJS, RequireJS, AngularJS-BootStrap UI, WebAPI, Entity Framework.

23 Mar 2016 by Prince Cheruvathur

This article provides simple steps for creating a template for ASP.Net application using AngularJS, RequireJS and Typescript using AMD module system.

Angular 2 & .NET Core Developing Web App From Scratch Part 1: Implementing Restful Web Server

2 Feb 2017 by O.Nasri

Great article to learn how you can create web application from scratch using Angular2 & .NET Core Web API

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Angular 6 Application with Cosmos DB and Web API 2

12 Aug 2018 by Sarathlal Saseendran

We will create an Angular 6 application with Cosmos DB and Web API 2.0.

AngularJS // BootStrap / typescript / TypeLite / Font awesone / ASP.NET Web API 2

19 Feb 2016 by mbruchet

How to make a multipleplateforme compatible mobile user interface with AngularJS // BootStrap / typescript / TypeLite / Font awesone.

API Created in Flask

1 Feb 2019 by WasiUllah Khan

Created an API for my DropBox file uploader using Flask

ApiBoilerPlate: A Project Template for Building ASP.NET Core APIs in .NET Core 3.x

1 Oct 2019 by Vincent Maverick Durano

A simple yet organized project template for building ASP.NET Core APIs in .NET Core 3.x

ApiBoilerPlate: New Features and Improvements for Building ASP.NET Core 3 APIs

1 Dec 2019 by Vincent Maverick Durano

The new version of ApiBoilerPlate has recently been released. In this post, we will take a look at the new features added to the template.

ASP.NET 5 Logging using Trace Listeners and How-to Filter Log Entries

21 Jan 2016 by Girish J Jain

This post shows how to use tracing framework with new ASP.NET 5 projects and how logging works in ASP.NET 5 along with certain pitfall that you need to be aware of in the process of using trace listeners. It also shows approach for how to filter log messages with trace listeners.

ASP.NET 5: Jump Start to AngularJS with MVC 6 Web API

8 Jun 2016 by Vincent Maverick Durano

ASP.NET 5: Jump Start to AngularJS with MVC 6 Web API

ASP.NET Core 2.1: Integrating VMD.RESTApiResponseWrapper.Core to Your REST API Application

16 Nov 2018 by Vincent Maverick Durano

A quick tutorial on how to integrate VMD.RESTApiResponseWrapper.Core library into your ASP.NET Core 2.1 REST API application

ASP.NET Core and Blazor on Mac: Dockerizing Applications

6 Oct 2018 by Vincent Maverick Durano

A step-by-step demo on how to build and dockerize ASP.NET Core and Blazor apps on MacOS

ASP.NET Core and Web API: A Custom Wrapper for Managing Exceptions and Consistent Responses

4 Jun 2020 by Vincent Maverick Durano

This article will talk about how to implement a custom wrapper for your ASP.NET Core and Web API applications for managing exceptions, providing meaningful and consistent responses to consumers.

ASP.NET Core Angular 2 EF 1.0.1 Web API Using Template Pack

25 Dec 2016 by syed shanu

In this article, let’s see how to create our first ASP.NET Core Angular 2 Starter Application (.NET Core) using Template pack using Entity Framework 1.0.1 and Web API to display data from the database to our Angular2 and ASP.NET Core web application.

ASP.NET Core with AutoWrapper: Customizing the Default Response Output

18 Oct 2019 by Vincent Maverick Durano

Highlights the detail about what's new in AutoWrapper Version 2. AutoWrapper is a simple, yet customizable global exception handler and response wrapper for ASP.NET Core APIs

ASP.NET Core, WEB API and Repository Class

16 Nov 2016 by syed shanu

In this article, we will see in detail how to create ASP.NET Core with Repository pattern in the WEB API.

ASP.NET Core: Building a Real-Time Online Poll System with SignalR 2, jQuery, EF Core, Core MVC and Web API 2

5 Aug 2016 by Vincent Maverick Durano

This series of article will walk you through on building a simple Online Poll System with real-time updates using SignalR 2, jQuery, Core EF, Core MVC and Web API 2.We will take a look at how each of the technologies will be used within ASP.NET Core 1.0.

ASP.NET Core: Compile Once, Host Everywhere

21 Nov 2016 by Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

How to host a cross-platform ASP.NET Core application

ASP.NET Identity 2.0: Introduction to Working with Identity 2.0 and Web API 2.2

6 Nov 2014 by John Atten

In recent posts, I've covered a lot of ground using ASP.NET Identity 2.0 in the context of an MVC application. Since it's RTM in March of this year, Identity 2.0 has offered a substantial expansion of the Authentication/Authorization . toolset available to MVC applications. Similarly, Identity 2.0

ASP.NET MVC Hotel Booking System Using AngularJS

27 Oct 2016 by syed shanu

Tutorial for creating a simple web based Hotel Room Booking System using MVC, AngularJS, and WebAPI

ASP.NET MVC Single Page App with Upida/Jeneva (Frontend/AngularJS)

9 Sep 2019 by vladimir husnullin

This article shows how to create a single page web applciation using AngularJS. It will be helpful for people willing to study Angular and MVVM practices.

ASP.NET MVC Tooltip using Web API, Bootstrap Popover and jQuery UI dialog

20 Jul 2017 by Bryian Tan

The author is sharing an article on how to create a help tooltip for a HTML element using Web API, Bootstrap Popover and jQuery UI dialog

ASP.NET MVC User Role Base Menu Management Using WEB API And AngularJS

28 Feb 2016 by syed shanu

In this article, we will see how to create and manage a User Role based menu using ASP.NET MVC, WEB API and AngularJS.

ASP.NET Web Api 2.2: Create a Self-Hosted OWIN-Based Web Api from Scratch

26 Jan 2015 by John Atten

Building up a lean, minimal Web Api application from scratch is a terrific way to become more familiar with how things work under the hood in a Web Api (or any other ASP.NET) project.

ASP.NET Web Api: Unwrapping HTTP Error Results and Model State Dictionaries Client-Side

3 Oct 2014 by John Atten

When working with ASP.NET Web Api from a .NET client, one of the more confounding things can be handling the case where errors are returned from the Api. Specifically, unwrapping the various types of errors which may be returned from a specific API action method, and translating the error content in

AutoWrapper: Prettify Your ASP.NET Core APIs with Meaningful Responses

4 Oct 2019 by Vincent Maverick Durano

In this post, we will take a look at how we can beautify our ASP.NET Core API responses using AutoWrapper.

Azure Storage Account Part 2: Upload Files in Blob Storage using C#

6 Jan 2019 by Arkadeep De

How to upload files in blob storage using C#

Building a Kanban board application using AngularJS, WebApi, SignalR and HTML5

23 Aug 2014 by Sul Aga

Building a Kanban board web application using AngularJS, WebApi, SignalR and HTML5

Building an Angular 13 Application with .NET 6 (Global Market) - Part 1

19 May 2022 by Fred Song (Melbourne)

Build a simple finance application with Angular 13 and .NET 6

Building an Angular 13 Application with .NET 6 (Global Market) - Part 2

7 Jun 2022 by Fred Song (Melbourne)

Build a simple finance application with Angular 13 and .NET 6

Call WebAPI's PUT method with complex input type from C#

29 Apr 2015 by Mathi Mani

In this article we will learn how to call WebAPI's PUT method with complex input type from C# using model input

Clean Factory Design Pattern with IoC Container

15 Dec 2017 by kusnaditjung

Coding principles

Client Side Web Application Primer

13 Nov 2013 by Super Lloyd

Sample Web Application using TypeScript, KnockoutJS, WebAPI, and T4 Templates.

Create an ASP.NET Web API web service to send authenticated emails with Office 365

21 Aug 2015 by alvinloh

How to create a centralized web service to send authenticated emails through Office 365 using ASP.NET Web API

Creating a Clean, Minimal-Footprint ASP.NET WebAPI Project with VS 2012 and ASP.NET MVC 4

13 Nov 2013 by John Atten

Creating a clean, minimal-footprint ASP.NET WebAPI project with VS 2012 and ASP.NET MVC 4.

Creating Self Hosted ASP.NET WebAPI with CRUD operations in Visual Studio 2010

14 Apr 2016 by Akhil Mittal

In this article I’ll explain how we can host aWebAPI in another process independent of IIS.

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Creating Web Based Music Player System Using MVC and AngularJs

18 Sep 2016 by syed shanu

In this article, we will learn how to create a simple web based music player system using MVC, AngularJS and Web API.

CRUD Operations with ASP.NET Web API using FluentNHibernate, Repository Pattern

16 Oct 2014 by Gaurav Aroraa

In this step-by-step article, we will discuss all about CRUD (Create Read Update Delete) operations with Web API using Repository pattern.

C’YaPass: The Best Password Manager You’ve Never Used (A Complete Password EcoSystem)

26 Jul 2022 by raddevus

C’YaPass (Fully Open Source Software) now a Fully-Functioning Password Ecosystem which doesn’t store your passwords anywhere — You are the owner of your data.

Deep Dive into OWIN Katana

17 Sep 2020 by kusnaditjung

Web specification and framework

Developing a sample project in Repository Design Pattern with the combination of Entity Frameworks (Code First), Unit of Work Testing, Web API, ASP.NET MVC 5 and Bootstrap

24 Oct 2016 by Kelum Priyadarshane

This project developed using combination of Entity Framework 6.0 + Code First Approach + Web API 2 + Repository Pattern + ASP.NET MVC 5 + SQL Server 2012 + Unit of Work Testing + Bootstrap.

Developing an Extensible Web API

2 Jul 2019 by Mustafa Kok

Developing a very simple Web API architecture using ASP.NET Web API2 whose operations can be extended by just adding new operation types

Developing back-ends with Enterlib.NET and WebAPI

11 Jul 2017 by Ansel Castro

Develop SOLID back-ends exposed through a REST API with ODATA support and DTO mapping using Enterlib.NET.

Diving into AngularJS Part-1

23 May 2015 by ChakriKAC

This article will help you to understand Angular JS right form basics

Dockerize ASP.NET Boilerplate Projects

23 Nov 2022 by alirıza adıyahşi

Creating a web farm on Docker container using redis, haproxy and abp module zero core template

Draw MVC Chart Using Web API, AngularJS And JQuery

22 May 2016 by syed shanu

Dynamic Pivot Grid Using MVC, AngularJS and WEB API 2

6 Dec 2015 by syed shanu

Simple MVC Pivot HTML Grid using AngularJS and Web API 2

Easy Kids Learn Using MVC and AngularJS

8 Mar 2016 by syed shanu

In this article you will learn how to create Kids Learn game using MVC and AngularJS

Enable Cross-origin Resource Sharing (CORS) in ASP.NET Core

27 Oct 2016 by Shashangka Shekhar

In this article, we will focus on how to enable CORS in ASP.NET Core application, get knowledge about CORS policy how we can share resource through different origin.

Export to Excel using NPOI - C# and WEB API

12 Aug 2019 by Mohammed Dawood Ansari

"How to export the List into an Excel file" in a generic way using NPOI with .NET/.NET Core WEB API

Extended XML Serializer for .NET

21 Nov 2017 by Wojciech Nagórski

Extended XML Serializer for .NET 4 and .NET CORE with WebApi and ASP Core integration.

File Upload using jQuery AJAX in ASP.NET Web API

8 Sep 2014 by Dukhabandhu Sahoo

Simple way to upload file using jQuery AJAX in ASP.NET Web API

Formatters and Content Negotiation in ASP.NET Web API 2

5 Jul 2016 by Akhil Mittal

This article will focus on practical aspects of formatters and content negotiation in ASP.NET Web API

Generate Typed FormGroup of Angular Reactive Forms with ASP.NET Core Web API

9 Jan 2024 by Zijian

Construct Angular Reactive Forms of client data models through generated codes

Generate Typed Forms of Angular Reactive Forms from Swagger / OpenAPI definitions

10 Jan 2024 by Zijian

Construct Angular Reactive Forms of client data models through generated Angular TypeScript codes

How to Create a Hotel Room Availability Calendar with C#

4 May 2023 by JayWalks

A walkthrough of code solving a real world problem

IdentityServer3, WebAPI , MVC, ASP.NET Identity, Specflow: The Magnificent Five

29 May 2017 by Veronica S. Zotali

This article shows how to configure IdentityServer3, when you need to authenticate and authorize usage of your WebAPI/MVC, for users stored in SQL Server.

Intended Solutions for Intentional Limitations of Strongly Typed OpenAPI Client Generators

1 Feb 2024 by Zijian

Use the codes generated by OpenApiClientGen in real world applications

Introducing Server Side Analytics for ASP.NET Core

20 Aug 2018 by TheQult

Simple middleware to add server side analytics functions to ASP.NET Core

Introduction to AngularJS and WebAPI

9 Feb 2015 by Serge Jerkezian

The article covers the basic architecture of AngularJS and how to connect it to a WebAPI.

JavaScript oAuth

10 Jul 2014 by Ricardo Lynch

Using JavaScript for oAuth with three major identity providers: Facebook, Google, and Twitter.

JSON and Microsoft Technologies

13 Jul 2014 by Marla Sukesh

How to work with JSON using ASP.NET Webforms, MVC, WCF and WebAPI

JWT Security Part 1 - Create Token

4 Sep 2017 by Bart-Jan Brouwer

Learn how to create JWT and use with WebApi, REST and MVC all build with .NET Core

JWT Security Part 2, Secure REST Service

4 Sep 2017 by Bart-Jan Brouwer

Learn how to create JWT and use with WebApi, REST and MVC All Build with .NET Core

JWT Security Part 3 - Secure MVC Application

4 Sep 2017 by Bart-Jan Brouwer

Learn how to create JWT and use with WebApi, REST and MVC all build with .NET Core

Learn NServiceBus from .NET Core WebAPI

13 Aug 2018 by Gunnar S

Convert an existing .NET Core WebAPI application to NServiceBus

LiteApi internals (or how to build your own WebAPI middleware)

1 Jul 2017 by Milan Stanacev

This article covers internal workings of LiteApi and explains aspects of creating MVC-like WebAPI middleware running on ASP.NET Core .

Load while scrolling

27 Jul 2012 by Manjunath Shrikantiah

Following Article will show how to load real time data while user scrolls.

Logging and Exception handling, Versioning in ASP.NET WEB API

19 Oct 2021 by Saineshwar Bageri

Log each request and response of an API in a way that it helps to maintain logs

MebhiChokiDAR – Tweet Sentiment Analysis and More Using Microsoft Flow

22 Mar 2019 by Rajat-Indiandotnet

How to do sentiment analysis using few clicks and see live graphical representation using Power BI live feed

Migrating to Bower and Gulp with Visual Studio 2015

4 Dec 2015 by Alexander Siniouguine

Discover Bower and Gulp with Visual Studio 2015

MVC AngularJS Master/Detail CRUD, Filter And Sorting Using WEB API 2 with Stored Procedure

18 Aug 2016 by syed shanu

In this article, you will learn about MVC AngularJS Master/Detail CRUD, Filter and Sorting using WEB API 2 with Stored Procedure.

MVC Web API and AngularJS For Are You Genius Game

4 Oct 2015 by syed shanu

This article shows how to create a Are You Genius game using MVC, AngularJS and Web API 2.

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Non-Tech Factors to Consider When Choosing Your Tech Stack

1 Jun 2016 by Kevin Griffin

Because it is so challenging, many developers concentrate on the technical aspects of selecting a stack while ignoring the developers themselves. If you are the technical director of a project, you cannot proclaim "this is the stack we will use" without considering important non-technical aspects.

OWASP #6 Preventing Sensitive Data Exposure in ASP.NET – Part 2

26 Feb 2016 by Max R McCarty

How are you storing that sensitive application data and should you be?

PDF Document Display and File Downloads with Angular, AngularJS, and Web API

22 Feb 2020 by Shenwei Liu

A sample web application and discussions on creating, displaying, and downloading PDF documents with Web API data sources (including ASP.NET Core), client Angular CLI or AngularJS Components, and resolutions for web browser compatibility to handle PDF documents.

Plantronics Legend UC Headset – A Call Center Example

28 Feb 2013 by Jeffrey T. Fritz

Plantronics Legend UC Headset – A Call Center Example

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Real-Time Poll Vote Results Using SignalR 2, MVC, Web API 2, jQuery And HighCharts

17 Oct 2016 by Vincent Maverick Durano

In this article, we will learn how to implement a simple Real-Time poll vote results using SignalR 2, MVC, Web API 2, jQuery and HighCharts.

RESTful Day #2: Inversion of control using dependency injection in Web APIs using Unity Container and Bootstrapper

1 Mar 2016 by Akhil Mittal

My article will explain how we can make our Web API service architecture loosely coupled and more flexible.

RESTful Day #4: Custom URL Re-Writing/Routes using Attribute Routing in MVC 4 Web APIs

1 Mar 2016 by Akhil Mittal

In this article I’ll explain how to write your own custom routes using Attribute Routing.

RESTful Day #5: Security in Web APIs-Basic Authentication and Token based custom Authorization in Web APIs using Action Filters

1 Mar 2016 by Akhil Mittal

This article will explain how to make WebAPI secure using Basic Authentication and Token based authorization.

RESTful Day #6: Request logging and Exception handling/logging in Web APIs using Action Filters, Exception Filters and NLog

1 Mar 2016 by sachin verma, Akhil Mittal

This article of the series will explain how we can handle requests and log them for tracking and for the sake of debugging, how we can handle exceptions and log them. We’ll follow a centralized way of handling exceptions in WebAPI and write our custom classes to be mapped to the type of exception th

RESTful Day #8: Unit Testing and Integration Testing in WebAPI using NUnit and Moq framework (Part2)

7 Mar 2016 by Akhil Mittal

In this article we’ll learn on how to write unit tests for WebAPI controllers i.e. REST’s actual endpoints.

RESTful Day #9: OData in ASP.NET Web APIs

1 Apr 2016 by Akhil Mittal

This is the last article of the RESTful series in which I’ll explain how you can leverage OData capabilities in ASP.NET WebAPI. I’ll explain what OData is and we’ll create OData enabled RESTful services.

Salesforce Apex API Connection to FHIR Server

13 Mar 2023 by Michael Breeden

How to make an API connection (GET, POST) using Salesforce Apex language (very like Java) to a FHIR (Electronic Medical Records) Server

Sample MVC, AngularJs with WebAPI to Update DB

5 Oct 2017 by Vijay Andugula

Example for database Update and Insert using Angular, Web APIs

Securing ASP.NET Web API using Custom Token Based Authentication

20 Apr 2017 by Saineshwar Bageri

In this article, we are going to learn how to secure asp.net web API using custom token based authentication.

Securing ASP.NET Web API when consumed by other .NET Application

15 Oct 2016 by Saineshwar Bageri

In this article we are going to have a look on how to secure WEBAPI.

Simple Authentication using Jwt in Asp.Net Web Api 2.2

3 Nov 2015 by Stewart Mbofana

In this article we examine how to use Json Web tokens as an authentication mechanism in Asp.Net Web Api 2.2.

Speed up ASP.NET Core WEB API Application - Part 3

2 Oct 2019 by Eduard Silantiev

Deep refactoring and refinement of ASP.NET Core WEB API application code

Speed Up ASP.NET Core WEB API Application: Part 1

2 Oct 2019 by Eduard Silantiev

Create a test RESTful WEB API service using ASP.NET Core 2.1

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Step by Step working of JSON with all technologies

10 Jun 2015 by Pradeep Shet

This article is intended to all those developers who are working on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) with JavaScript/JQuery. Here I tried to show all the possible ways of handling JSON from client like XMLHttpRequest, JQuery Ajax, Angular js with Web Service, WCF Rest, Asp.NET Web Forms, MVC, MVC

Student Data Bank: An ASP.NET MVC, WebAPI, EF Codefirst, Task, ESB showcase

9 Apr 2015 by Omar Al Zabir

An example Web application showcasing the amazing features of ASP.NET MVC, WebAPI, EF together with ESB to build a secure, reliable, REST based web api, and web frontend.

Token Based Authentication for Web API where Legacy User Database is used

18 May 2017 by Abhijit S Kulkarni

Token Based Authentication for Web API