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  • How To Find Out Which NuGet Packages Depend on Yours

    How To Find Out Which NuGet Packages Depend on Yours

    Feb 11
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    Renaming a package ID is a potentially destructive action and one we don’t recommend doing. Why? Well if any other packages depend on your package, you’ve effectively broken them if you change your package ID. For example, today I wanted to rename a poorly named package, MicrosoftWebMvc, to Mvc2Futures. What I ended up doing is recreating the same package with the new ID and uploading it. That way existing packages that depend on MicrosoftWebMvc aren’t broken. But now, I have two packages ...

  • WCF REST Services Inside MVC Projects

    WCF REST Services Inside MVC Projects

    Sep 10
    23

    Recently I blogged about WCF REST services with no svc file and no config. In this post I also discussed the pros/cons of WCF services as compared to using MVC controller actions for web services and I made the case that, in many instances, WCF REST services is better than using the MVC infrastructure because WCF provides: a more RESTful API with less work a convenient automatic help page to assist consumers of your service automatic format selection (i.e., xml/json) depending on HTTP he...

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