Prerequisite: This post assumes you understand what web APIs are, what they are designed for and how to write them. If not then take a look at this MSDN article first. In order for web APIs to be useful they need documentation. Unlike traditional APIs there is no function signatures to look at. Even if… Continue reading Documenting Web APIs
WebHooks are a relatively new concept in ASP.NET but they have been around for a while with other platforms. GitHub, PayPal and even Dropbox support them already. If you are unfamiliar with the concept of a webHook then go read the introduction first. Recently I needed to solve a problem for which WebHooks seemed like… Continue reading WebHooks vs Message Bus
I have to admit that ASP.NET MVC is cool. The ability to interleave UI elements with control flow statements makes things a lot easier than the traditional databinding of ASP.NET. The ability to pass strongly-typed objects to methods and auto-magically have pages appear with the data without ugly hacks is just awesome. The new Razor… Continue reading ASP.NET MVC Is the New ASP
(Originally published: 3 January 2009) One of the biggest confusions in the ASP.NET world is that of web project type. Visual Studio (VS) supports two web project types: web sites and web applications. Unfortunately, they are different enough that it is important to understand which type you are using and why. In this article we… Continue reading Web Sites vs Web Applications