Questions tagged [asp.net-mvc-web-api]
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Best practice ASP.NET MVC share code with Web API
I'm trying to develop an ASP.NET MVC-application with an additional Web API.
To reduce code-duplication, I'd like to share as much code as possible, but with the possibility to differentiate between ...
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API Routes: Get App by User or Get User's App
We have a .Net WebApi 2 we've been working on for quite some time. As we refactor code, we started thinking of what might be a better practice: a) "to get an app by userid", or b) "to ...
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How to authorize and store user login from a xamarin frontend to a asp.net core api
So I suppose this question isn't as much as a 'How to' but a 'which way' kind of question.
So I have a .net core api backend that makes calls to a dB
I also have a xamarin forms project that ...
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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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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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Should we call Web API from MVC application in same solution?
I am working on a project in MVC that has mobile application so one thing is clear that we have to use Web API so it can used in mobile application.
After creating API when we started to develop Web ...
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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 you validate route parameters or let them fail with a 404?
So this is an example endpoint to fetch one user by its username
[HttpGet("{username}")]
public async Task<ActionResult<object>> GetUser([FromRoute] string username)
{
// ...
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Should integration tests use database? [closed]
I know that integration tests test parts of project that interaction with each other somehow. And I need to test this interaction. And there is the question:
1)Should these tests use real database ...
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Is it okay to have multiple get action methods in ASP .Net Web API controller according to RESTful API constraints?
I have the following interface in my business layer
public interface IUserService
{
void CreateUser(User user);
List<User> FindUsersByName(string searchedString);
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Isn't CQRS overengineering?
I still remember good old days of repositories. But repositories used to grow ugly with time. Then CQRS got mainstream. They were nice, they were a breath of fresh air. But recently I've been asking ...
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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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What is the simplest version of best practice application architecture for a backend in C# and ASP.NET Core WebAPI?
I know that in some contexts, best practice would be DDD, CQRS and EventSourcing, but in my case this would be too complicated of two reasons:
My team is beginners, and we want them to be productive ...
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ASP.NET Web API and MVC Architecture for Web Application
We have a single solution Visual Studio web application with multiple projects.
One of the projects (Services project) has APIs for our App clients (Android/iOS). There's separate project for MVC ...
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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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