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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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Referencing Routes in ASP.NET MVC The Rails Way
May 1130Routing is probably the most confusing aspect of working with ASP.NET MVC. It’s hard to craft a groovy URL - even harder to link properly off to that groovy URL. Rails leans on Ruby’s forgiving and friendly nature to make this a bit more simple - C#4 allows to get close to this as well. With Rails 3 you define a route in your config/routes.rb like this: match "order/receipt/:id" => "orders#receipt", :as => :receipt # receipt_url You can access this route anywhere in your application ...
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How to move you posts from Subtext to WordPress
Jan 1105A few weeks ago, I finally finished the migration of Daniela’s old blog to a new domain and a new blogging platform: we moved from Subtext to WordPress. The reasons of the move There are two reason behind that move: the big ecosystem around WordPress, and the lack of a real desktop blogging tool on the Mac (combined to the outdated FCKeditor 2 that is used by Subtext). During the migration Daniela thought about a different Information Architecture of her content spread around in the web, d...
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Using RavenDB with ASP.NET MVC
Nov 1008Traditionally when you think about a database you think of tables, views, indexes and stored procedures. If you have made a career out of developing database centric applications like I have, then chances are that you have spent a great deal of time dealing with issues around referential integrity, normalization and performance. Unless you have been living underneath a rock, then you have probably heard of the newest database trend named NoSQL. NoSQL refers to non relational document databas...
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Simple Dependency Injection using a Custom MVC Controller Factory
Aug 1030Whenever I develop an MVC application there is always some degree of data access required. As a best practice, I usually define a interface that my repository objects will adhere to. Creating an interface is generally a requirement for Dependency Injection (DI). DI is a very important pattern if you plan on doing any unit testing later on. For the purpose of this demo, I am going to keep things simple and only create a fake repository. Here is the code: public interface IRepository { Person ...
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