If you are a .NET developer who is looking for a simpler way to build services, this is the book for you. It will show you how to write fast, maintainable APIs that are a pleasure to use and maintain starting from the database to the client and everything in-between. Comprehensive coverage of the Redis library, … Continue reading
While I’m still surprised at the move, it’s not unprecedented – I think they’ve been letting the open source folks dabble for years now, and they’ve proven that it works. 2007/2008 – MS starts building ASP.NET MVC While this wasn’t a move to open source anything, it did finally start to seem as though Microsoft … Continue reading
Four Steps to Keep Windows 8 From Sucking Writing apps for Windows 8 should be simple. When I say that, I mean that I expect them to run on the phone and on the tablet and on the PC, similarly to the way that I can target PhoneGap and get both iPhone and iPad – or … Continue reading
In our previous post, we covered the basics of setting up Visual Studio to support our project – adding Service Stack, removing demo classes we don’t need, and plugging in our basic model and services – we even copied a basic JQueryMobile app.html in to our project. However, we haven’t done anything yet. In today’s … Continue reading
In a previous post, I wrote about making a simple web back using ServiceStack back end that could serve up information about upcoming events. We automatically got SOAP, JSON, CSV and other end points. In today’s post, we’re going to look at a technique to consume them. Want more on ServiceStack? ServiceStack 4 Cookbook contains … Continue reading
I’ve been working with the Service Stack framework recently. Service Stack is a great SOA framework for building REST (and RPC) based web services – lots of the great things about WCF are in there – but they fixed lots of the problems. The thing that initially attracted me to it, is that it does … Continue reading
This blog post is a repost of an answer I wrote at programmers.stackexchange.com. To answer the question of which is considered better practice, between exceptions and coding defensively: In .NET, its common practice to avoid the overuse of Exceptions. One argument is performance: in .NET, throwing an exception is computationally expensive. Another reason to avoid … Continue reading
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