I amended my open-source CsvTools with an Excel reader. Once I read the excel worksheet into a datatable, I can use all the data table operators from the core CsvTools, including enumeration, Linq over the rows, analysis, mutation, and saving back out...

Here’s how you can easily customize WebAPI parameter binding to include values from source other than the url.  The short answer is that you add a custom ValueProvider and use Model Binding, just like in MVC. ValueProviders are used to provide values...

MVC provides several ways for binding your own arbitrary parameter types.  I’ll describe some common MVC ways and then show how this applies to WebAPI too. You can view this as a MVC-to-WebAPI migration guide.  (Related reading: How WebAPI binds...

I described earlier how WebAPI binds parameters . The entire parameter binding behavior is determined by the IActionValueBinder interface and can be swapped out. The default implementation is DefaultActionValueBinder. Here’s another IActionValueBinder...

Here’s an overview of how WebAPI binds parameters to an action method.  I’ll describe how parameters can be read, the set of rules that determine which technique is used, and then provide some examples.   [ update ] Parameter binding is ultimately...