The new baby – Web API

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Sep 052012
 

And as you might have heard, the latest buzz in ASP.NET world is Web APIs. The clean routing and real (read natural) HTTP integration makes this so exciting and compelling that most of the devs will fall in love with it at first sight. But wait, that’s not the silver bullet. Just because now you have another (and better) way to serve your content over HTTP, you should not start running towards it.

Your new friend, MVC, is also capable of serving JSON and creating HTML easily and that’s what you were doing till now. Rick Strahl posted a concise blog post on where exactly Web API fits into. As he mentioned, Web API comes with a slight overhead. So for every small AJAX request, you don’t need to (should not) write an API; even a MVC Controller method will be fine for such thing.

I am planning to implement my upcoming assignment at work with Web API. Let’s see how it turns out!!!

More on Web API: http://www.asp.net/web-api

Back to basics: Website Vs WebApp

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Aug 122011
 

Well I am back on my blog… so hope few more post in coming days. Got one decent article on the one of the basic questions on VS “Whats the diff. b/w Website and Web App”. Here is the link of the post. Although the post is pretty old but its carrying lot of info/experience [ more.....]

ASP.NET Server Controls

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Apr 192011
 

  Server controls are central to the ASP.NET Web Forms model. The output of an ASP.NET page is defined using a mix of HTML literals and mark-up for ASP.NET server controls. A server control is a component with a public interface that can be configured using mark-up tags, child tags, and attributes. Each server control [ more.....]