If you are building an ASP.NET Web API and want a view into the HTTP traffic that is hitting your API then this is a really quick solution that might prove useful. Runscope is a cloud based service that allows you to monitor, measure and test Web APIs. By using their API I was able to build a HttpMessageHandler that […]
This past week I spent in Atlanta, Georgia, attending Xamarin Evolve and Atlanta Code Camp. This was the second annual Evolve conference and attendance went from 600 the first year to 1200 this year. This year’s event was an impressive affair. Cultivating an Niche Not only did the number of attendees grow significantly from last […]
In the recent update of the HTTP specification, the details of conditional requests have been split out and given their whole own specification. Most developers I talk to are familiar with the idea of 304 Not Modified response code, but whenever we start to dig deeper everyone, myself included, are missing pieces of the puzzle. This article is one […]
Uber recently announced the availability of a public API. I decided to take it for a spin and provide some commentary. The quick version is that it is a fairly standard HTTP API and that is both a good thing and a bad thing. You can find the official documentation for the Uber API on their […]
ASP.NET Web API 2.1 introduced some significant improvements to the mechanisms that support global error handling. Before this release there were a number of different types of errors that would be handled directly by the runtime and there was no easy way to intercept these errors and add your own custom behavior. The standard guidance suggests […]
I think most us ASP.Net Web API developers have, at some point, experienced the problem where their API is returning a 500 Internal Server Error, but tracing through with Visual Studio doesn’t reveal any exceptions in our code. This problem is often caused when a MediaTypeFormatter is unable to serialize an object. This simple message […]
We are currently seeing a significant amount of discussion about building hypermedia APIs. However, the server side only plays part of the role in a hypermedia driven system. To take full advantage of the benefits of hypermedia, the client must allow the server to take the lead and drive the state of the client. As […]
In Web API 2.1 a new mechanism was introduced for returning HTTP messages that appeared to be a cross between HttpResponseMessage and the ActionResult mechanism from ASP.NET MVC. At first I wasn’t a fan of it at all. It appeared to add little new value and just provide yet another alternative that would a be a source of confusion. […]
Unfortunately, I still regularly run into articles on the web that misunderstand the concept of an HTTP resource. Considering it is a core piece of web architecture, having a clear understanding of what it means can make many other pieces of web architectural guidance considerably easier to understand. To try and keep this post as […]
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