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What is HATEOAS, REST, and Hypermedia? | ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web API, Azure Video Tutorial
Scott Hanselman and Mat Velloso talks about REST and RESTful Web Services. Also discusses about HATEOAS, which actually means "Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State." Scott......
What is Mean by Cross-Origins and Same-Origins? | HTTP Interview Question
Two URLs have the same origin if they have identical schemes, hosts, and ports. (RFC 6454) These two URLs have the same origin: http://example.com/foo.html http://example.com/bar.html These......
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As given in the wikepedia, 'Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) is a mechanism that allows many resources (e.g., fonts, JavaScript, etc.) on a web page to be requested from another......
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How to avoid Sending Stack Trace of Unhandled Exception in ASP.NET Web API? | ASP.NET Web API Interview Question | ASP.NET Web API Programmer Guide
When an exception is thrown and it is not handled, ASP.NET Web API returns a 500 Internal Server Error. This response will have the stack trace details in the response body. However,......
Explain HTTP Request? | ASP.Net Web API Interview Question | ASP.Net Web API Programmer Guide | HTTP Programmer Guide
An HTTP request has the request line as the first line of the request. The request line starts with the HTTP method followed by a space, followed by the URI of the resource requested,......
Manipulating Resources Through Representations in ASP.NET Web API | ASP.NET Web API Programmer Guide
The example of a user typing http://server/api/employees/12345 in Internet Explorer can be described as a user requesting a resource using the GET verb and getting back the employee......
Identifying Resources in ASP.NET Web API | ASP.NET Web AP| Programmer Guide | ASP.NET Web API Tutorial
In previous articles, we have discussed about what is RESTful service and the constraints involved and how to resolve these constraints of REST in ASP.Net Web API. Now......
How to Build a Service that Satisfies RESTful constraints using the ASP.NET Web API framework? | ASP.NET Web API Interview Question | ASP.NET Web API Programmer Guide
In my previous article, I have explained about the what is RESTful service and the constraints involved. Now let us see how the ASP.Net Web API satisfies those constraints. Client-server......
What Is a RESTful Service? | ASP.NET Web API Interview Question | RESTful Service Programmer Guide
Representational State Transfer (REST) is an architectural style. The term REST was introduced and defined by Roy T. Fielding in his doctoral dissertation in the year 2000. A service......
Scenarios to Choose ASP.NET Web API | Scenarios Implementing ASP.NET Web API | ASP.NET Web API Programmer Guide
Let us see some of the scenarios where ASP.NET Web API can add value to an application or system architecture. The following are the scenarios where ASP.NET Web API, as the......
Why Web API? | A Journey from Web Services (ASMX) to WCF to ASP.Net WebAPI | History of Internet Protocol | Origin of Internet
It all started with the launch of Sputnik in 1957, by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). The United States, under the leadership of then President Eisenhower, started......
Types of Web API Action Return Types | Return Types in Web API Action | ASP.NET Web API Interview Question | ASP.NET Web API Programmer Guide
Web API supports three types of possible action return values (well, four, if you count void): – HttpResponseMessage – IHttpActionResult – any other type, subject......
Implementing Custom Message Handlers In ASP.NET Web API | ASP.NET Web API Reference Guide | ASP.NET Web API Tutorial
Steps to write a custom message handler: derive from System.Net.Http.DelegatingHandler and override theSendAsync method. This method has the following signature: Task<HttpResponseMessage>......
Scenarios To Implement Custom Message Handlers in ASP.NET Web API | ASP.NET Web API Reference Guide | ASP.NET Web API Tutorial
Adding custom handlers are good for cross-cutting concerns that operate at the level of HTTP messages (rather than controller actions). For example, a message handler might: Read......
Explain Server-Side Message Handlers In ASP.NET Web API? | ASP.NET Web API Interview Question
On the server side, the Web API pipeline uses some built-in message handlers: HttpServer gets the request from the host. HttpRoutingDispatcher dispatches the request based......
Explain Delegating Handlers? | Web API Interview Question | .Net Interview Question
Typically, a series of message handlers are chained together. The first handler receives an HTTP request, does some processing, and gives the request to the next handler. At some......
Knockout.js Role In ASP.NET MVC Application | Knockout.js Tutorial | ASP.NET MVC Tutorial | ASP.NET Web API Tutorial
Knockout.js is a Javascript library that makes it easy to bind HTML controls to data. Knockout.js uses the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern. The model is the server-side......
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