In the previous post I’ve described how to use the library and what are the main characteristics. For sure there is more to come and follow up, so stay tuned. In this post, I would like to describe the big performance improvements made in the meantime, as I was not fully happy with the serialization performance in the first version. As I have just submitted a [... read more]
As I have just published the Google DataTable .Net Wrapper project on CodePlex, the following post intends to be a quick introduction on the rationale on why this project has been created and its implementation. Quick Project Background While working on the implementation of the www.linktotweet.com web site, which is one of my side projects, I had to choose a way of displaying charts in [... read more]
This is the second post of the series about how to load dynamically external content to a html page by using jQuery AJAX capabilities. If you want to know how to use the load() method please check the previous post. There are mainly 4 ways of how jQuery library enables the AJAX requests, and this article covers the second one in the list. using the [... read more]
Microsoft WCF framework is the Microsoft (de-facto) platform for developing SOAP Web Services. Even though in the latest .NET 4 version there are many improvements like: simplified configuration and better support for REST web services type, personally I have a love-hate relationship with it because I believe that is not the easiest platform to work on, especially when it comes to the configuration. Dependency Injection [... read more]
In this short tutorial I will show how to create quickly a RESTful service by using Visual Studio 2012, ASP.NET Web API and Advanced REST Client. Download a fully working example that covers all the code mentioned in the post: FirstAspNetWebApi_20120920.zip If you liked the article, please share this page to your twitter followers . Let’s quickly learn some basic concepts: RESTful service REST acronym [... read more]
Just wondering how many different ways are there for creating Web Services (of any kind) in the Microsoft.NET stack. ASP.NET Web Services Introduced from the beginning of the Microsoft.NET. ASP.NET Web Services technology has given a very easy way of creating Services within the Microsoft.NET stack. Even being so easy to implement, ASP.NET Web Services are good only in simple scenarios. ASP.NET Web Services are [... read more]