WebHooks and WebSockets in ASP.NET
Responding to a third party event in a browser One hurdle developers face when dealing with browsers is that once a page is loaded, we are done. If we want to get new data to the client we need to initiate a new request from the browser. AJAX helps us but it is not usually ...
Read MoreWCF and Dynamic SSL
Here at ENTech Solutions we maintain several environments which include production, staging, QA and development. Each of these environments has its own setup with production and QA having their own SLL certificates. Stable and most of our local development environments do not. We can use self signed certs on our local development systems, but for ...
Read MoreUsing partial request/response in WCF
I got inspiration to research on this topic after reading partial request/response email a week ago. This was the link mentioned in the email. http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2010/03/making-apis-faster-introducing-partial.html Partial request/response is also used in LinkedIn APIs. http://blog.linkedin.com/2009/07/08/brandon-duncan-java-one-building-consistent-restful-apis-in-a-high-performance-environment/ In their API documentation, they have sample partial requests. They call it FieldSelecto ...
Read MoreHow to write unit tests for JSON, XML and SOAP endpoints of WCF Service
Background In a recent project I worked on WCF service with the following requirements: Support requests and responses in SOAP, JSON and XML. Support GET and POST requests. Be able to Unit Test SOAP, JSON and XML requests CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD SOURCE CODE FOR WCF SERVICE and UNIT TESTS table.sample { border-width: 1px; border-spacing: ...
Read MoreFind And Replace text in multiple files – for windows
A couple of months ago I set out to find a simple find and replace tool that I could use when rolling out my projects. For ex. to change various settings in config files to support dev/qa/prod environment. Where is that “Find And Replace” option in windows? It doesn’t exist at this time. I was ...
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