The code for this post can be downloaded from the MSDN Code Gallery . A pair of popular posts which I did a couple months back was to show how one can implement CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) in the net ASP.NET Web API framework. This week I...

When we were defining the features that the “ Add Service Reference ” (ASR) dialog for Windows 8 Metro-style applications would have (so that those apps could use typed proxies to consume SOAP services), one of the points where there was some confusion...

Very quick post today. WCF now has a UserVoice channel, a way for customers to suggest features to be implemented in the next version of the framework, as well as things which you think should be better. Check it out at http://tinyurl.com/wcfvnext and...

Every once in a while I look at the statistics of my blog to see which post is getting more traction. Yesterday I published a post about a function which I found out recently, and seeing the same mistakes I had made in a recent code review I thought it...

Having working on the test team for many products which involve serialization (conversion between CLR objects and various wire formats, such as XML, binary and JSON), I’ve created my share of test types, since there are many, many rules about serialization...

I’ve seen this question to many times in different forums, and answered in many different ways that I decided to write a post with more details about it. The title says it all, but I want to reiterate the answer that I had to give so many times: Using...

The code for this post can be downloaded in the MSDN Code Gallery . A couple of weeks back, Youssef Moussaoui posted about a way to create a lightweight service using the ASP.NET Web APIs . His code was built using the self-hosted support for the APIs...

Quick post today. MVC developers are used to the [RequireHttps] attribute, which is an authorization filter which doesn’t allow any requests to be made over "plain” HTTP. This attribute doesn’t exist in Web API, but it’s fairly simple to replicate...

The code for this post can be downloaded in the MSDN Code Gallery . The FormUrlEncodedMediaTypeFormatter class shipped with the ASP.NET Web APIs beta is one of the default formatters in the Web APIs and can be used to support incoming data from the application...

In the post about the raw mode for the WCF Web programming model , I showed how to use a content-type mapper to tell WCF to treat all incoming requests as “raw” requests, so we could map any content, including those supported by the formatter, to a Stream...

The code for this post can be found in the MSDN Code Gallery . For a controller type in the ASP.NET Web API to be accessible, it needs to follow some rules : Be a class Be public Be non-abstract Implement the IHttpController interface (usually via the...

The code for this post can be found in the MSDN Code Gallery . As I mentioned in my first post about the ASP.NET Web APIs, people used to WCF services may get a little confused at first with the concept of model binding , which is the process by which...

The code for this post is published in the MSDN Code Gallery . Last post I showed one way to implement CORS support in the ASP.NET Web APIs. It was somewhat simple, and enabled requests from CORS-aware browsers to all resources exposed by the APIs. This...

The code in this post is published on the MSDN Code Gallery . By default, a web page cannot make calls to services (APIs) on a domain other than the one where the page came from. This is a security measure against a group of cross-site forgery attacks...

There has historically been in Microsoft many ways of doing the same thing. That’s one of the original goals of WCF when it was created: unify the 5 or so different ways of creating distributed applications using the Microsoft stack (ASMX services, COM...

This post is the last one in the series about WCF extensibility points. For a list of all posts, go to the index page . And that’s the end of the series about extensibility points in WCF. I hope that the previous 40-some posts were useful for...

This post is part of a series about WCF extensibility points. For a list of all previous posts and planned future ones, go to the index page . And we’re reaching the end of this series. To close it, I’ll cover some of the lesser used extensibility...

This post is part of a series about WCF extensibility points. For a list of all previous posts and planned future ones, go to the index page . And we’re now back in the middle of the WCF runtime, and at the last few posts for this series. This time we...

This post is part of a series about WCF extensibility points. For a list of all previous posts and planned future ones, go to the index page . And we’re back from the short detour to the world of WCF RIA Services , and the long “ mini-series...

This post is part of a series about WCF extensibility points. For a list of all previous posts and planned future ones, go to the index page . And we’re again taking a small detour over the normal flow of the series covering the “proper” WCF extensibility...

This post is part of a series about WCF extensibility points. For a list of all previous posts and planned future ones, go to the index page . And we’ll get to the end of the channel layer and transports in general with this post. After looking...

This post is part of a series about WCF extensibility points. For a list of all previous posts and planned future ones, go to the index page . And after the little detour on the previous post about the IInteractiveChannelInitializer interface, we’re back...

This post is part of a series about WCF extensibility points. For a list of all previous posts and planned future ones, go to the index page . Since this is a slow week (many people are on vacations for the Christmas / New Year holidays, at least in the...

This post is part of a series about WCF extensibility points. For a list of all previous posts and planned future ones, go to the index page . This is the part 3 of 3 of a “mini-series” inside the main series. For the other parts, here’s the list. Transport...

This post is part of a series about WCF extensibility points. For a list of all previous posts and planned future ones, go to the index page . This is the part 2 of 3 of a “mini-series” inside the main series. For the other parts, here’s...