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Using an alternate JSON Serializer in ASP.NET Web API
Mar 1209The new ASP.NET Web API that Microsoft released alongside MVC 4.0 Beta last week is a great framework for building REST and AJAX APIs. I've been working with it for quite a while now and I really like the way it works and the complete set of features it provides 'in the box'. It's about time that Microsoft gets a decent API for building generic HTTP endpoints into the framework. DataContractJsonSerializer sucks As nice as Web API's overall design is one thing still sucks: The built-in JSON S...
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Techniques for real-time client-server communication on the web (SignalR to the rescue)
Nov 1129When building web applications, you often face the fact that HTTP, the foundation of the web, is a request/response protocol. A client issues a request, a server handles this request and sends back a response. All the time, with no relation between the first request and subsequent requests. Also, since its request-based, there is no way to send messages from the server to the client without having the client create a request first. Today users expect that in their projects, sorry, experience...
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The history of ASP.NET MVC, so far
Jun 1129This post is a mile high overview of the history of ASP.NET MVC, the features it brought with the various versions and the extensibility points introduced. I am starting to work on both a series of webcasts and articles and I was doing some preparatory work, collecting information on the various features and extensibility points that got into the various (official) releases of ASP.NET MVC, so I thought it could have been useful to share my little summary. There have been 3 major official r...
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Free “Guathon” all day event in London on June 6th
May 1124The (awesome) UK developer community is holding another all day event with Steve Sanderson and me in London on June 6th. The event is free to attend, and the venue will be in Central London (at the ODEON Covent Garden). The website for the event is here. Content The event goes from 9am to 5pm, and will feature a bunch of great .NET content. The current agenda includes the following talks: Build an app using ASP.NET MVC 3, EF Code First, NuGet and IIS Express (ScottGu) We'll spend 2 ho...
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Revisiting Charts: HTML5 Attributes
Feb 1115The charting sample I wrote years ago rendered image tags like this: <img id="topDestinations" src="roller.gif" /> The roller gif was a spinning animation that let the user know some work was happening behind the scenes. JavaScript loaded into the page had the following responsibilities: 1) Identity the image tags to transform into charts. 2) Call a web service to generate the chart asynchronously. 3) Set the src attribute of each image the to image name returned by the web servic...
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Revisiting Charting with ASP.NET and LINQ
Feb 1114Once upon a time I wrote an article titled “Charting with ASP.NET and LINQ”. At the time I used a combination of WebForms, WCF, the Microsoft AJAX libraries, and the Microsoft chart control. I had some time to revisit the topic recently and rewrote the sample application using ASP.NET MVC and jQuery. You can download the sample here. The idea behind the sample is to present a “dashboard” full of charts. I’ve worked on a few dashboards over the years, and they are always notoriously difficul...
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Hanselminutes Podcast 252 - ReactiveUI extensions to the Reactive Framework (Rx) with Paul Betts
Feb 1108Scott sits down with Paul Betts and talks about extending the Reactive Framework. We currently manage our UI events as they are pushed to us. How does programming - and asynchronous programming - change if we change the way UI events are consumed? The Rx Reactive Framework extends .NET, and Paul's extended that with his Open Source Reactive UI framework. Let's see if Paul can teach Scott a new trick. Download: MP3 Full Show Links from the Show ReactiveUI Main site Github page Blog Se...
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Building a Self Updating Site Using NuGet
Jan 1116For those of you who enjoy learning about a technology via screencast, I’ve recorded a video to accompany and complement this blog post. The screencast shows you what this package does, and the blog post covers more of the implementation details. A key feature of any package manager is the ability to let you know when there’s an update available for a package and let you easily install that update. For example, when we deployed the release candidate for NuGet, the Visual Studio Extension M...
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Link Rollup: New Documentation and Tutorials from Web Platform and Tools
Jan 1114Lots of cool stuff was released yesterday that I mentioned in the post ASP.NET MVC3, WebMatrix, NuGet, IIS Express and Orchard released - The Microsoft January Web Release in Context. The Web Platform Tools Content Team has been working hard on new content and tutorials to get you up to date on all this fun new stuff. Here's a link rollup from Wade's documentation team. Congratulations to Mike Pope, Tim Teebken, Rick Anderson, Tim Ammann, Keith Newman, Erik Reitan and Tom Dykstra on a gre...
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Unobtrusive Ajax helpers in MVC3
Dec 1027ASP.NET MVC has included Ajax helpers since its first release. These allow you to generate “ajax-enabled” html elements, such as hyperlinks or forms that submit data asynchronously. For example, you can use the Ajax.BeginForm method to construct an ajax-enabled form: % using Ajax.BeginFormSave, new AjaxOptions InsertionMode = InsertionMode.Replace, UpdateTargetId = #myDiv % [...]...
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