Contents tagged with .Net
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ASP.NET Web API/AngularJS SPA Demo App Updated (webapi-angularjs-spa v1.2.0)
We have released an updated version for the single page application (SPA) demo built with ASP.NET Web API 2 and AngularJS. The current version (v1.2.0) of the demo app available on github at https://github.com/MarlabsInc/webapi-angularjs-spa. The following are the new features added in the webapi-angularjs-spa v1.2.0:
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Microsoft Azure Mobile Services Managed Client SDK with Offline Support
In this post, I will take a look at the new offline support provided by Microsoft Azure Mobile Services to the managed client SDK v1.3 alpha, which can be used for building Windows store apps with offline capabilities and syncing data between local database and Azure Mobile Service database. Microsoft Azure Mobile Services has been evolving over time with new useful features. On the last update, Azure Mobile Services started to support .NET for writing backend so that developers can now write backend logic either in C# or in JavaScript/Node.js. The latest addition to the evolving Microsoft Azure Mobile Services is the support for working with offline scenarios, which is an excellent feature, while we are building mobile apps. This lets the mobile apps to store data on the local storage in offline scenario and can sync-up the data to the Mobile Services storage when we are connected to the internet. The current version is a preview version available for managed clients. SQLite is used for persisting the offline data on the client apps.
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ASP.NET Web API/AngularJS SPA Demo App Updated
A while ago, I had announced a single page application (SPA) demo, built with ASP.NET Web API 2 and AngularJS. Recently, we have been updated the source on both server-side and client-side. The current version (v1.1.0) of the demo app available on github at https://github.com/MarlabsInc/webapi-angularjs-spa.
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Windows Azure Mobile Services with .NET Backend
In this post, I will take a look at the new .NET support provided in Windows Azure Mobile Services for building mobile backend. Windows Azure Mobile Services was a technology based on Node.js, where we write backend code in JavaScript and we can leverage the Node.js ecosystem including NPM modules. But with the new release of Windows Azure Mobile Services, we can also build Mobile Services backend with .NET, which is a ASP.NET Web API based infrastructure. This is super exciting feature to .Net developers as developers can now work with Visual Studio 2013 for building Mobile Services backend with .NET where they can debug, test and run applications locally with their favourite IDE Visual Studio. For ASP.NET Web API developers, they can work with Mobile Services using their existing skills.
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Demo SPA App for ASP.NET Web API 2 and AngularJS
In my previous post, I have announced SocialGoal, a reference web app for ASP.NET MVC 5 and EF 6 Code First. Today, I am announce the release of a demo single page application (SPA) for ASP.NET Web API 2 and AngularJS, developed by my team at Marlabs. The application is published on github at https://github.com/MarlabsInc/webapi-angularjs-spa. A release note is available in the docs folder of the project repository. The current version is an early first drop of the application, which we will continuously refactor, and later we will provide guidance for developing real-world client-side JavaScript apps and SPAs, including unit testing, task automation and performance optimizations.
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Releasing SocialGoal - Reference Web App for ASP.NET MVC 5, EF 6 Code First, AutoMapper, Autofac, TDD and DDD
My team at Marlabs, developed and released a sample reference web app for the Microsoft ASP.NET stack, named “SocialGoal” . SocialGoal is a social networking web app for socializing your goals and strategies with people. People can create goals and can be shared across the network of SocialGoal users. This app is built with ASP.NET MVC 5, EF 6 Code First, AutoMapper, Autofac, Twitter Bootstrap and following Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Domain Driven Design (DDD). The first drop of the application is available on github at https://github.com/MarlabsInc/SocialGoal. A release note is available in the docs folder of the project repository. The primary objective of the SocialGoal app is to provide a learning app for building real-world web apps with ASP.NET MVC 5 and EF 6 Code First.
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Adopting Technologies for the Sake of Technologies
Unlike other engineering industries, the software engineering industry is really lacking maturity. The lack of maturity can see in different aspects of entire software development life cycle. I think other engineering industries are well organised and structured with common, proven engineering practices. The software engineering industry is greatly a diverse industry with different operating systems, and variety of development platforms, programming languages, frameworks and tools. Now these days, people are going behind the hypes and intellectual thoughts without understanding their core business problems and adopting technologies and practices for the sake of technologies and practices and simply becoming a “poster child” of technologies and practices. Understanding the core business problem and providing best, solid solution with a platform neutral approach, will give you more business values and ROI, instead of blindly adopting technologies and tailor-made your applications for the sake of technologies and practices. People have been simply migrating their solutions in favour of new technologies and different versions of frameworks without any business need.
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ASP.NET Web API OWIN Self Host on Windows Azure
In this blog post, I will take a look at Open Web Interface for .NET (OWIN) and will also demonstrate how to deploy ASP.NET Web API app on Windows Azure Worker Role using OWIN and OWIN HttpListener server provided by OWIN self host infrastructure. The OWIN HttpListener server lets you host ASP.NET Web API within your own process. In this demo, I will host the ASP.NET Web API app within a Windows Azure Worker Role.
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Writing Unit Tests for ASP.NET Web API Controller
In this blog post, I will write unit tests for a ASP.NET Web API controller in the EFMVC reference application. Let me introduce the EFMVC app, If you haven't heard about EFMVC. EFMVC is a simple app, developed as a reference implementation for demonstrating ASP.NET MVC, EF Code First, ASP.NET Web API, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), Test-Driven Development (DDD). The current version is built with ASP.NET MVC 4, EF Code First 5, ASP.NET Web API, Autofac, AutoMapper, Nunit and Moq. All unit tests were written with Nunit and Moq. You can download the latest version of the reference app from http://efmvc.codeplex.com/
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The new Auto Scaling Service in Windows Azure
One of the key features of the Cloud is the on-demand scalability, which lets the cloud application developers to scale up or scale down the number of compute resources hosted on the Cloud. Auto Scaling provides the capability to dynamically scale up and scale down your compute resources based on user-defined policies, Key Performance Indicators (KPI), health status checks, and schedules, without any manual intervention. Auto Scaling is an important feature to consider when designing and architecting cloud based solutions, which can unleash the real power of Cloud to the apps for providing truly on-demand scalability and can also guard the organizational budget for cloud based application deployment. In the past, you have had to leverage the the Microsoft Enterprise Library Autoscaling Application Block (WASABi) or a services like MetricsHub for implementing Automatic Scaling for your cloud apps hosted on the Windows Azure. The WASABi required to host your auto scaling block in a Windows Azure Worker Role for effectively implementing the auto scaling behaviour to your Windows Azure apps. The newly announced Auto Scaling service in Windows Azure lets you add automatic scaling capability to your Windows Azure Compute Services such as Cloud Services, Web Sites and Virtual Machine. Unlike WASABi hosted on a Worker Role, you don’t need to host any monitoring service for using the new Auto Scaling service and the Auto Scaling service will be available to individual Windows Azure Compute Services as part of the Scaling.