We have had several posts about WCF vs Web API: 1: WCF, WCF Web API and ASP.NET Web API; 2: Abstractions map: WCF Web API vs ASP.NET Web API; 3: WCF or Web API; 4: Host ASP.NET Web API In WPF Application Today we read another great article “WCF or ASP.NET Web APIs? My two [Read More ...]
Apr 282013
We posted 3 guides about Deploy a web application which includes WCF, SilverLight and ASP.NET , for simplified all steps, here provides a “quick guide”: 1: Make sure you have installed IIS successfully, at least you can visit http://localhost and see a default web page; 2: Open IIS Management (7 and above), right mouse click [Read More ...]
1: Creating WCF AJAX Services without ASP.NET 2: WCF REST Service with JSON 3: Calling WCF service exposed with different bindings in JQuery 4: RESTful WCF Services with No svc file and No config 5: How to: Create a Service Endpoint in Code 6: How to: Create a Service Endpoint in Configuration 7: How to: [Read More ...]
Apr 072013
About WCF and Web API, we should have a longer blog, but this time we just put several links, they are also great article about WCF vs Web API, you should get to know whether choose WCF or Web API after you reading them. 1: WCF and ASP.NET Web API 2: WCF or ASP.NET Web [Read More ...]
Jan 022013
I posted the previous 2 parts of our case deployment in 2012: 1: A Case: Deploy a web application which includes WCF, Silverlight and ASP.NET part 1; 2: A Case: Deploy a web application which includes WCF, Silverlight and ASP.NET part 2; Today I post the 3rd part: Deploy the case on a server which [Read More ...]
there are some concepts map between old WCF Web API and new ASP.NET Web API. (From WCF Official page) The WCF Web API abstractions map to ASP.NET Web API roughly as follows WCF Web API ASP.NET Web API Service Web API controller Operation Action Service contract Not applicable Endpoint Not applicable URI templates ASP.NET Routing [Read More ...]
Jul 232012
About our case’s deployment, I have posted the part 1 here. This article is the part 2. We have done the discuss for Web Server settings and WCF configuration. Here we start from the 3rd part: Silverlight project configuration. C> Silverlight project: The Silverlight project or application also need to be set since it communicates [Read More ...]
Jul 232012
We have a web application which developed using ASP.NET 4.0 (Web Forms), Silverlight 4.0 and WCF 4.0. Brief information about our application: 1: We use WCF to provide all data to clients, some data are from database, another part of data are from a real time data resource; 2: We use self host for the [Read More ...]
Now WCF Web API changed to ASP.NET Web API. ASP.NET Web API has the feature of self-host. In Microsoft official site, they also provides two simples ASP.NET Web API self-host samples. However, they are so simple and actually they looks like the “same” one because these 2 simples are Console applications and use very similar [Read More ...]
Most of content in this post from Microsoft and related websites: Firstly, we start from the simplest thing: The relationship of WCF Web API and ASP.NET Web API is WCF Web API is now “merged” to ASP.NET Web API, “ASP.NET Web API is effectively the next version of WCF Web API. There will not be [Read More ...]