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 ...]
Mar 162013
1: HTTP Communication and Security with Silverlight (including Cross-Domain Communication) 2: How to: Specify Browser or Client HTTP Handling 3: Network Security Access Restrictions in Silverlight Silverlight supports two types of security policy files: — Flash policy file - crossdomain.xml policy file used by Adobe Flash. — Silverlight policy file - clientaccesspolicy.xml file [Read More ...]
1: Building Real-time Web Apps with ASP.NET WebAPI and WebSockets; 2: http://signalr.net/ 3: ASP.net SingalR video SignalR can support websockets if IIS and your browser support this, if not it uses longpolling. Using SignalR will save you a lot of time reinventing the wheel, they have proven that you can create a good chat website [Read More ...]
Nov 062012
One of our ASP.NET project was built based on .NET 4 and focused on IIS 7.x web server, but doesn’t matter, IIS 6 support .NET 4.0 well, so we should be able to deploy the project on IIS 6 server too. Our system is Windows Server 2003 and IIS 6. 1: Load IIS Manager (Internet [Read More ...]
IIS 7.X web server versions are more and more popular, but there are still lots of real customers using old system, such as Windows Server 2003, they don’t want to upgrade the system now, especially those old servers are working for their existing system. So if you have ASP.NET projects which need an IIS web [Read More ...]
Nov 062012
IIS is the Web Server software from Microsoft. Normally IIS is a part of Windows OS system, it means you do not need to purchase an IIS separately. The IIS version and Windows system version matches (Due to the record from Wikipedia): IIS 1.0 was a free add-on for Windows NT 3.51. IIS 2.0 was [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 ...]