Subdomain with ASP.NET MVC using Attribute Routing

ASP.NET MVC Routing allows defining various mappings and recently I have looked at an interesting framework known as Attribute Routing. Using Attribute Routing setting up a subdomain for your website that uses ASP.NET MVC is very simple. Now consider you have a website www.csharptechies.com and you would want to define subdomains such as blog.csharptechies.com, projects.csharptechies.com, labels.csharptechies.com etc.... Each...

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Restricting access to a webservice in ASP.NET

Restricting access to a webservice can be done via web.config but if you would want to make the decision at runtime then here is an example of how you could achieve this protected void Application_BeginRequest(Object sender, EventArgs e) { if (/*Condition*/) { if (HttpContext.Current.Request.Url.ToString().Contains("Admin.asmx")) { HttpContext.Current.Response.StatusCode = 404; } } } Genius ain't...

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Mock frameworks for .NET Part 2

As we have already seen the basics of Mock framework, let's look at some of Mock frameworks that are available and understand what they do or don't support. NMock Software License Apache License 2.0 Last Active Jul-2011 Latest Version NMock3 Supported .NET Version .NET 4.0 Build Server Integration No Code Coverate Integration No Mock Interfaces Yes Mock Everything No Mock Legacy Code No Auto Recursive...

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Mock frameworks for .NET Part 1

Mock frameworks are used for unit testing your code and are used for Test Driven Development (TDD). A mock framework should support Arrange Act Assert (AAA) pattern. There are various mock frameworks available and choosing the right one is not easy. Before looking at various frameworks available let's understand some basics of what a framework should have to be known as a Mock framework. Mock Interfaces & abstract classes Interfaces...

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Using ASP.NET Web API for streaming pictures

ASP.NET Web API 2.0 provides various new features and one of which is Attribute Routing. Attribute routing allows custom configuration for routing by assigning attribute to the web method. Get latest version of ASP.NET Web API 2.0 via Nuget package Install-Package Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.WebHost Update WebApiConfig to include config.MapHttpAttributeRoutes() public static class WebApiConfig { public static void...

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Server Side MVC vs Client Side MVC

MVC (Model–view–controller) is an architecture patterns that addresses separation of concerns, test driven development, statelessness, extensibility, SEO, REST and many more. Choosing MVC pattern for developing web application is a very easy decision, but that is just the beginning. Rest of decision is deciding how to design, develop and implement the web application.Now deciding on "Server Side MVC" or "Client Side MVC" is not...

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Streaming millions of rows as a csv in ASP.NET MVC

Generating reports using the data from the database is something any project will generally have, but to be able to actually download all of the data as a csv is not easy. Not just thousands of rows but if database has millions of rows then challange will be to decide best approach. Consider following approaches 1. Generate the report on server and then stream the file to clients machine 2. Stream data in batches onto client...

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