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Paging with ASP.NET Web API OData
A common requirement for web applications is to expose partial results from a larger set of data....
Date: 02/19/2013
Writing tests for an ASP.NET Web API service
It's important to test any service you write to make sure that it's behaving the way you expect it...
Date: 01/28/2013
Building Real-time Web Apps with ASP.NET WebAPI and WebSockets
WebSocket is a recent technology that provides two-way communication over a TCP connection. This...
Date: 07/17/2012
Error Handling in ASP.NET WebAPI
WebAPI is a brand new framework that makes it easy to build HTTP services. As such, it provides...
Date: 06/28/2012
Writing a Lightweight Web Service using WebApi Building Blocks
Don’t you wish you could write a web service this easily: LiteWebServer server = new...
Date: 02/24/2012
Using the [ContractNamespace] attribute to customize the namespace for POCO types
In .NET 3.5 SP1, DataContractSerializer was enhanced to support POCO types that weren’t marked...
Date: 06/30/2011
Loading WCF Client Configuration from Different Files with ConfigurationChannelFactory
One pain point with configuration that WCF developers have run into in previous versions of the...
Date: 09/02/2010
Turning XML into XmlSerializer CLR Types with xsd.exe
Here’s a common dilemma .NET developers encounter when working with XML: I have some XML that...
Date: 06/01/2010
Using XML Schema Import and Export for XmlSerializer
In a previous post, I outlined how you could import and export the XML schema for a type that you’re...
Date: 05/13/2010
How to get minOccurs = 0 in the schema for XmlSerializer struct members
If you try exporting the following type into an XML schema: public class Employee { public DateTime...
Date: 03/22/2010
How to Change .NET Configuration Files at Runtime (including for WCF)
One of the most common issues people run into with WCF configuration, and .NET applications in...
Date: 01/21/2010
Behavior Merge in WCF 4.0 Configuration
One of the brand new configuration features you can find in the Beta 2 release of .NET 4.0 is the...
Date: 12/22/2009
Separating out WCF Configuration Into Multiple Files with configSource
WCF configuration files can sometimes be very, very long. And there’s a good reason for that too:...
Date: 11/03/2009
WCF 101: The Simplest WCF Example You'll Ever See
Every once in a while, I’ll encounter a developer that thinks that WCF is too complicated to use....
Date: 11/02/2009
Beta 2's out!
Ok, so a bit late, but the Beta 2 release of Visual Studio 2010 was released two weeks ago. With...
Date: 11/02/2009
Reusing Types in Referenced Assemblies with svcutil's /r Switch
Everyone’s entitled to their own personal favorite svcutil switch, but mine is the “/reference”...
Date: 10/09/2009
Serializing Plain Old CLR Object (POCO) types with DataContractSerializer
When version 3.0 of the .NET framework shipped, DataContractSerializer could only support a few...
Date: 08/10/2009
Optimizing Away Repeat XML Namespace Declarations with DataContractSerializer
For performance reasons, DataContractSerializer can’t always figure out what namespaces will be used...
Date: 07/24/2009
Comparing the Performance of .NET Serializers
The .NET framework comes with a variety of different serializers. Hopefully, my overview of these...
Date: 07/10/2009
Setting Configuration Defaults with Nameless Elements in WCF 4
This is my second post about Beta 1 features in WCF 4.0 after introducing the DataContractResolver....
Date: 06/26/2009
Customizing the XML for collections with XmlSerializer and DataContractSerializer
One of the most common requests I get about serialization is to explain how to get collections to...
Date: 06/12/2009
Configuring Known Types Dynamically - Introducing the DataContractResolver
This post has been updated to account for the changes to the DataContractResolver in the Beta 2...
Date: 06/05/2009
Configuring the Client Endpoint for svcutil
One of the more common questions I get is along these lines: I want to configure svcutil to use a...
Date: 05/12/2009
Using XML Schema Import and Export for DataContractSerializer
For many WCF developers, service metadata import and export is a magical thing. You start your...
Date: 04/29/2009
Testing the performance of known types
In my last post, I claimed that one of the reasons you should try to avoid known types is that it...
Date: 04/24/2009
Understanding Known Types
Probably the aspect of WCF serialization developers have the hardest time with is known types. In...
Date: 04/22/2009
An overview of .NET serializers
A common question developers have about serialization in .NET is what serializer they should use....
Date: 04/15/2009