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Can I call a WCF endpoint from ASP.Net Web API?
I have a web api with controller methods that use rest http(post/get calls).
Clients consume this API with normal httpclient calls and I pass an http response back.
My use case is I have a legacy ...
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How often should I request a token when communicating with a third-party API?
I have an ASP.net web API. I would like to call another API that has an authentication token inside my API.
The code flow is as follows:
My API is called → Get authentication token from 3rd party API →...
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Separation of concerns and other best practices across Controllers, Services, Providers and Stores in ASP.NET when building a REST web api
I am traditionally a desktop app developer, but circumstance has thrust me into the role of doing web client and corresponding REST api logic for a project I am involved in. Unfortunately, I'm a one-...
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Should an ASP.NET Web API application use Entity Framework in the API controllers?
Im a bit confused about what is best practice when working with Entity Framework and ASP.NET Web API.
I am working on a project that contains a iOS/Android app and an API the app will use to ...
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Web API - How to prevent the POST-ing of entities with custom Id values
Let's say I have the following model:
public class Product
{
public string Id { get; set; }
public string Name { get; set; }
public string Category { get; set; }
public ...
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Why should I use REST API?
I somehow get the point of REST API, like for example you want to get the list of customers to the database server, you have to request a GET method and the server will throw a response with a ...
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Separating models in a Backend-For-Frontend (BFF) API
At the moment I have a frontend client calling several backend REST APIs. For example a call may be to get information about a certain vehicle. Then the client will call REST API A to get some ...
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When designing a web application with Vue.js and ASP.NET Core, is ASP.NET solely for the API?
When creating a web application from scratch with ASP.NET MVC Core (using Visual Studio 2017) and using Vue.js, is the MVC Core part of the application solely for the API? What other function would ...
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Calling executables from an ASP.NET WebAPI
I have an Angular application with a table, and I'm considering having the console application take the name of C# programs that the user can run.
I was thinking of passing the name or code of the ...
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Stateful authentication in REST API using tokens
I have recently started on a project involving a REST API. The API requires authentication with requirements for administrators to be able to view logged in users and to be able to revoke specific ...
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What should be the REST API (URL) for a user to be assigned to multiple territories
In our application we have a user who can be assigned multiple territories.
What is the best way to expose the REST API?
Should it be as :
[POST] www.xyz.com/Territory/User
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[POST] www.xyz.com/...
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Web API - strong classes or dynamic?
My web api method should return some structured data about my profile. To do it I created the following POCO classes:
public class ProfileInfo
{
public string FirstName { get; set; }
public ...
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What features are missing from WCF Rest Implementation
In this question about using WCF and/or WebAPI, there is this quote:
I was asking myself the same question until I found this WCF and
ASP.NET Web API comparison page on MSDN (with my own emphasis
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Dotnet (.NET) core MVC WEB API SPA Project and Solution Structure
I am building a new simple web application using dotnet core (.NET Core) and Angular SPA.
Does it make sense to split API and Web App into different projects?
This would complicate things (...
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Best technique for pushing many records and files to a system: WEB API or FTP
I have a website where users can upload manuals (PDF documents) for their products. Basically, they first add the product to the system and then add 1 or more manuals to that product. A manual can ...
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