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Using the newer ASP.NET Web API, in Chrome I am seeing XML - how can I change it to request JSON so I can view it in the browser? I do believe it is just part of the request headers, am I correct in ...
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I recently found a movie organizer application which fetches its data from the IMDB database. Does IMDB provide an API for this, or any third party APIs available?
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I've spent a few months trying to grasp the concepts behind WCF and recently I've developed my first WCF service application. I've struggled quite a bit to understand all the settings in the config ...
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I have concerns on the way that we returns errors to client. Do we return error immediately by throwing HttpResponseException when we get an error: public void Post(Customer customer) { if (...
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I've been playing around with ASP.NET MVC 4 beta and I see two types of controllers now: ApiController and Controller. I'm little confused at what situations I can choose a particular controller. ...
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I wish to add an ASP.NET Web API to an ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Application project, developed in Visual Studio 2012. Which steps must I perform to add a functioning Web API to the project? I'm aware that I ...
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I see in tons of examples on the web using the new HttpClient object (as part of the new Web API) that there should be HttpContent.ReadAsAsync<T> method. However, MSDN doesn't mention this ...
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I'm trying to support JWT bearer token (JSON Web Token) in my web API application and I'm getting lost. I see support for .NET Core and for OWIN applications. I'm currently hosting my application in ...
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I'm working on a web service using ASP.NET MVC's new WebAPI that will serve up binary files, mostly .cab and .exe files. The following controller method seems to work, meaning that it returns a file, ...
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I am trying to call a web API from my web application. I am using .Net 4.5 and while writing the code I am getting the error HttpClient does not contain a definition PostAsJsonAsync method. Below is ...
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I realize session and REST don't exactly go hand in hand but is it not possible to access session state using the new Web API? HttpContext.Current.Session is always null.
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Is there a way to display all enums as their string value in swagger instead of their int value? I want to be able to submit POST actions and put enums according to their string value without having ...
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I keep getting this error when I try to have 2 "Get" methods Multiple actions were found that match the request: webapi I been looking around at the other similar questions about this on stack but ...
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Since Microsoft Web API isn't MVC, you cannot do something like this: var a = Request.MapPath("~"); nor this var b = Server.MapPath("~"); because these are under the System.Web namespace, not the ...
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I need to implement the following WebAPI method: /api/books?author=XXX&title=XXX&isbn=XXX&somethingelse=XXX&date=XXX All of the query string parameters can be null. That is, the ...
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Several months ago, Microsoft decided to change up the HttpResponseMessage class. Before, you could simply pass a data type into the constructor, and then return the message with that data, but not ...
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Since upgrading to RC for WebAPI I'm having some real odd issue when calling POST on my WebAPI. I've even gone back to the basic version generated on new project. So: public void Post(string value) { ...
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I need to write the following data into a text file using JSON format in C#. The brackets are important for it to be valid JSON format. [ { "Id": 1, "SSN": 123, "Message": "whatever" ...
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The two entities are one-to-many relationship (built by code first fluent api). public class Parent { public Parent() { this.Children = new List<Child>(); } public int ...
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I am developing an API to expose some data using ASP.NET Web API. In one of the API, the client wants us to expose the date in yyyy-MM-dd format. I don't want to change the global settings (e.g. ...
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Why are the FromBody and FromUri attributes needed in ASP.NET Web API`? What are the differences between using the attributes and not using them?
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I did the upgrade according to. http://www.asp.net/mvc/tutorials/mvc-5/how-to-upgrade-an-aspnet-mvc-4-and-web-api-project-to-aspnet-mvc-5-and-web-api-2 I get the error. Does any one else got this ...
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I have been using HttpClient for making WebApi calls using C#. Seems neat & fast way compared to WebClient. However I am stuck up while making Https calls. How can I make below code to make Https ...
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I have a method that does a POST like below var response = await client.PostAsJsonAsync(url, entity); if (response.IsSuccessStatusCode) { // read the response as strongly typed object ...
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I'm using an MVC 4 web API and asp.net web forms 4.0 to build a rest API. It's working great: [HttpGet] public HttpResponseMessage Me(string hash) { HttpResponseMessage httpResponseMessage; ...
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