Questions tagged [asp.net-mvc-web-api]
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Where to add WebApi in a service repo design pattern project?
I am hoping someone has had to do this before and can help.
I have a multi tier MVC application that I need to add WebApi, in preparation for moving to .Net Core + react and a new set of controls for ...
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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 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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SignalR Handle Multiple Clients in my Scenario
I currently have multiple clients who need to be informed when a customer creates a new order. Each customer is registered to an individual client and customers create orders on my website (each order ...
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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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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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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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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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A True RESTful API | Help needed
I know that a RESTful would have unified API and it treats everything as a resource (a noun, example a book, a product,...) and it can be applied with CRUD operations using HTTP Verbs (GET, PUT, POST, ...
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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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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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Authenticated ASP.NET Core MVC site consuming web API
I have an ASP.NET Core 2.2 MVC site, that uses Facebook as an identity provider. Users can click the login button, they are redirected to Facebook to enter their credentials, and are then redirected ...
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