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  • Using SignalR to broadcast a slide deck

    Using SignalR to broadcast a slide deck

    Dec 11
    06

    Last week, Ive discussed Techniques for real-time client-server communication on the web (SignalR to the rescue). Weve seen that when 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 serv...

  • Rewriting WCF OData Services base URL with load balancing & reverse proxy

    Rewriting WCF OData Services base URL with load balancing & reverse proxy

    Nov 11
    08

    When scaling out an application to multiple servers, often a form of load balancing or reverse proxying is used to provide external users access to a web server. For example, one can be in the situation where two servers are hosting a WCF OData Service and are exposed to the Internet through either a load balancer or a reverse proxy. Below is a figure of such setup using a reverse proxy. As you can see, the external server listens on the URL www.example.com, while both internal servers are ...

  • MyGet now supports pushing from the command line

    MyGet now supports pushing from the command line

    Jun 11
    01

    One of the work items we had opened for MyGet was the ability to push packages to a private feed from the command line. Only a few hours after our initial launch, David Fowler provided us with example code on how to implement NuGet command line pushes on the server side. An evening of coding later, I quickly hacked this into MyGet, which means that we now support pushing packages from the command line! For those that did not catch up with my blog post overload of the past week: MyGet offers ...

  • Referencing Routes in ASP.NET MVC The Rails Way

    Referencing Routes in ASP.NET MVC The Rails Way

    May 11
    30

    Routing 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 ...

  • Using dynamic WCF service routes

    Using dynamic WCF service routes

    May 11
    09

    For a demo I am working on, I’m creating an OData feed. This OData feed is in essence a WCF service which is activated using System.ServiceModel.Activation.ServiceRoute. The idea of using that technique is simple: map an incoming URL route, e.g. “http://example.com/MyService” to a WCF service. But there’s a catch in ServiceRoute: unlike ASP.NET routing, it does not support the usage of route data. This means that if I want to create a service which can exist multiple times but in different con...

  • Authenticate Orchard users with AppFabric Access Control Service

    Authenticate Orchard users with AppFabric Access Control Service

    Feb 11
    14

    From the initial release of Orchard, the new .NET CMS, I have been wondering how difficult (or easy) it would be to integrate external (“federated”) authentication like Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control Service with it. After a few attempts, I managed to wrap-up a module for Orchard which does that: Authentication.Federated. After installing, configuring and enabling this module, Orchard’s logon page is replaced with any SAML 2.0 STS that you configure. To give you a quick idea of what ...

  • MvcSiteMapProvider 2.2.0 released

    MvcSiteMapProvider 2.2.0 released

    Oct 10
    27

    Im proud to announce that MvcSiteMapProvider 2.2.0 has just been uploaded to CodePlex. It should also be available through NuPack in the coming hours. This release has taken a while, but thats because Ive been making some important changes... MvcSiteMapProvider is, as the name implies, an ASP.NET MVC SiteMapProvider implementation for the ASP.NET MVC framework. Targeted at ASP.NET MVC 2, it provides sitemap XML functionality and interoperability with the classic ASP.NET sitemap controls, li...

  • MvcSiteMapProvider 2.1.0 released!

    MvcSiteMapProvider 2.1.0 released!

    Aug 10
    03

    The release for MvcSiteMapProvider 2.1.0 has just been posted on CodePlex. MvcSiteMapProvider is, as the name implies, an ASP.NET MVC SiteMapProvider implementation for the ASP.NET MVC framework. Targeted at ASP.NET MVC 2, it provides sitemap XML functionality and interoperability with the classic ASP.NET sitemap controls, like the SiteMapPath control for rendering breadcrumbs and the Menu control. Next to a brand new logo, the component has been patched up with several bugfixes, the visibi...

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