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Invoke ASP.NET Web API using TypeScript and XMLHttpRequest |
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Invoking Web API is a quite common task in modern ASP.NET web applications. Usually, developers resort to jQuery Ajax to call the Web API. If you are using a client side framework such as Angular, you may also use the inbuilt ways to make the Ajax calls. However, what if you aren't using these approaches? This article discusses an alternative. |
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Posted On : 16 Oct 2017 |
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Prepare ASP.NET projects (Web Forms / MVC / Core) to use Angular 4 |
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As as ASP.NET developer working with latest trends you might want to use Angular 4 in your projects. Unlike libraries such as jQuery, Angular 4 is a framework and there are quite a few steps involved before you actually start utilizing its powerful features. To that end this article explains the steps necessary to prepare your ASP.NET projects to use Angular 4. We will discuss the process for all the three flavors of ASP.NET available today - ASP.NET Web Forms, ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Core. |
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Posted On : 25 Sep 2017 |
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Use XML Data Format In ASP.NET Web API |
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Modern web application use JSON as the preferred data format for the sake of transferring data between a Web API and its client. However, at times you may want to use XML data format instead of JSON. Although the overall process to accomplish this task is same, there are certain subtle but important differences. To that end this article shows how XML data exchange can be done between an ASP.NET Web API and a jQuery driven client. |
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Posted On : 18 Sep 2017 |
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Encode HTML, JavaScript, and URL Query Strings In ASP.NET Core |
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When a web page accepts an input from the end user it can also include malicious data consisting of special characters, HTML tags, JavaScript code and the things like that. As a safety measure you should encode such data before displaying it back on to a page or while passing through URL query strings. To that end ASP.NET Core providers three encoder classes that help you accomplish just that. This article discuses how these classes can be used to encode HTML markup, JavaScript code and URL query strings. |
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Posted On : 04 Sep 2017 |
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Prevent Cross-Site Request Forgery In ASP.NET Core |
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If you worked with ASP.NET MVC applications before, you are probably aware of Cross-site request forgery (CSRF / XSRF) attacks. You might have also used anti-forgery token based approach to prevent them. ASP.NET Core uses a similar approach but there are a few differences that you should be aware of. To that end this article briefly discusses the CSRF attack and ASP.NET Core way to prevent them. |
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Posted On : 28 Aug 2017 |
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Five Things Worth Knowing About ASP.NET Core Tag Helpers |
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It is quite common for ASP.NET Core applications to rely on the tag helpers to render forms and form fields. So, a view typically contains many tag helpers as well as standard HTML markup. You can improve your development time experience with the tag helpers in variety of ways. This article discusses a few of them. |
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Posted On : 14 Aug 2017 |
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Implementing AutoPostBack in ASP.NET Core |
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Those of you who worked with ASP.NET web forms will recollect that certain server controls such as DropDownList have a property called AutoPostBack. This property when set to true automatically submits the form to the server and raises some server side event. In modern web development people prefer to use Ajax over AutoPostBack but at times AutoPostBack is what you might need. To that end this article shows how AutoPostBack can be implemented in ASP.NET Core applications. |
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Posted On : 31 Jul 2017 |
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Seven Ways of Creating Objects in JavaScript for C# Developers |
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As a C# developer building ASP.NET web applications you create classes and then use their objects in your application. In JavaScript, however, there are multiple ways to create objects. This article gives you a quick overview of these available options with an example of each. |
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Posted On : 24 Jul 2017 |
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