ASP.NET Web API Basics

We have seen that now web is really becoming cross plate form and you can see your services or API can be exposed to any client. Till now one of big challenges is to choose platform for this kind of service. There are so many options available like web services, WCF services,Generic Handlers, directly writing responses on aspx page etc. There are plenty of options available and each one has their own pros and cons.  But now we have one simpler answer for that is ASP.NET Web API.

What is Web API?

ASP.NET Web API is a framework for building web API on the top of .NET framework. It’s a framework for building and consuming web services that can be use at broad range of clients like browsers,tablets phones etc. You can expose JSON or XML whatever you want to use.

Why to use Web API?

Think about a situation where a jQuery script that is making a ajax request and we need some thing who can expose data from the server to the client at that time WEB API can be very handy you can expose server data in XML or JSON form and you can make that call with simple http request. No lengthy code required to call WEB API.

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Extract to User Control in visual studio11

Note: This post will be part of Visual Studio 2012 feature series. As Visual studio 2011 beta is now known as Visual Studio 2012

I have been playing with Visual Studio 11 beta recently and everyday I am amazed with new features of it. Today I have found one more very useful feature Extract to User Control feature.

In large projects, we are having large pages and its always good to use  user control(.ascx) but sometimes we are so lazy to create user controls and we remain with the whole page and even we can’t reuse that code. In similar kind of situation ‘Extract to user control’ can be quite useful. Suppose we have long HTML mark up and we need to convert one div to user control and then we can do it very easily with Visual Studio 11 beta Extract to User Control feature.

You just need to select code you want there in user control and then you need to right click and click ‘Extract to User Control’ like below.

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Browser selection in Visual Studio 11

This blog post will be a part of Visual Studio 2012 features series. As now Visual Studio 2011 beta know as Visual Studio 2012.

In the earlier version of the Visual Studio if you want to run your page in browser then you have to do it with view in browser. But now you have directly that on the Visual studio 2012 toolbar like below.

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