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Many Web applications today are starting to expose data as REST service interfaces, so it can be accessed through APIs by other tiers of the application or even by other applications. A RESTful we...
Many Web applications today are starting to expose data as REST service interfaces, so it can be accessed through APIs by other tiers of the application or even by other applications. A RESTful web service is a simple Web service implemented using HTTP and the principles of REST. REST Services focus on resources; each one is represented by a unique URI, and users interact with them via their URI using the HTTP uniform interface.
Existing applications can also benefit from exposing services with REST over HTTP, with an approach that does not require developers to re-architect the entire application. This Web Application Toolkit shows how to easily add REST service interfaces for an existing Web application. The Web Application Toolkit includes a sample of REST services based on a fictitious online auction site. It exposes an API using REST services built with the Windows Communication Foundation that can consumed by client applications. Two sample client applications are included, one using simple ASP.NET pages to consume the REST service and show a list of ending auctions, and a second Web application using AJAX to asynchronously invoke the REST service to show a list of most viewed auctions. The Web Application Toolkit also includes a custom project template for Visual Studio to make it easier to build new REST Services.
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Started: Jul 26 2009
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This Web Application Toolkit is designed to demonstrate how to extend an existing ASP.NET MVC Web application to provide access from mobile devices. To enable mobile access, the Web application sho...
This Web Application Toolkit is designed to demonstrate how to extend an existing ASP.NET MVC Web application to provide access from mobile devices. To enable mobile access, the Web application should have views targeting each of the mobile devices to be supported.
The MVC pattern helps you create applications that separate the different aspects of the application (input logic, business logic, and UI logic), while providing a loose coupling between these elements. The pattern specifies where each kind of logic should be located in the application. The UI logic belongs in the view. Input logic belongs in the controller. Business logic belongs in the model. This separation helps you manage complexity when you build an application, because it enables you to focus on one aspect of the implementation at a time. For example, you can focus on the view without depending on the business logic.
In this Web Application Toolkit we use the MVC pattern to create several views targeting different kind of browsers reusing the same business logic. For this implementation, we use the ASP.NET MVC framework which provides an alternative to the ASP.NET Web Forms pattern for creating MVC-based Web applications. The ASP.NET MVC framework is a lightweight, highly testable presentation framework that is integrated with existing ASP.NET features, such as master pages and membership-based authentication.
For extending the Web application to use mobile specific views, this sample provides a reusable component called MobileCapableViewEngine that enables the Web application to show the appropriate view depending on the device's browser that is performing the request.
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Started: Jul 26 2009
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This Web Application Toolkit is designed to demonstrate how to generate and send dynamic, template-based emails from a web application. There are many common scenarios where notification emails nee...
This Web Application Toolkit is designed to demonstrate how to generate and send dynamic, template-based emails from a web application. There are many common scenarios where notification emails need to be sent to end users. Examples of these common scenarios may involve notifying a user of their newly created account, sending a new password in respond to a forgotten password request, or emailing an alert under specific business circumstances, such as the creation of a order. Typically the E-mails sent from a Web application scenario are formatted as HTML, include CSS stylesheets, and images and need to be generated dynamically with custom or user-specific data.
This Web Application Toolkit provides a reusable component named TemplateDrivenEmail that can be used to easily generate and send dynamic, HTML-formatted emails based on templates that you can easily create and customize. The TemplateDrivenEmail component is a .NET Class Library that can easily be included in your solution and used with an ASP.NET Web Application, a background application such as a Windows Service, or any other type of .NET application. The email templates are based on a standard XML technology know as Extensible Stylesheet Language. This Web Application Toolkit also includes an example that shows how to use the TemplateDrivenEmail component.
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Started: Jul 26 2009
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Adding social capabilities to your Web site allows you to attract new users, keep them on your Web site for longer and get them to come back more often. This Web Application Toolkit shows how, usin...
Adding social capabilities to your Web site allows you to attract new users, keep them on your Web site for longer and get them to come back more often. This Web Application Toolkit shows how, using a few lines of code with the Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit, it is possible to add social capabilities to a Web site. The Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit is a JavaScript based set of controls and libraries that allow a developer to quickly and easily add instant messaging to a Web site and harness the power of the Windows Live Messenger network that is used by 330 million users around the world. The Web Application Toolkit will also show how to bring information about users from Windows Live such as their presence, profile information and profile picture.
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Started: Sep 24 2009
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Bing is a powerful new Decision Engine designed to help consumers accomplish tasks and make faster, more informed decisions. The Bing Application Programming Interface (API) provides developers pro...
Bing is a powerful new Decision Engine designed to help consumers accomplish tasks and make faster, more informed decisions. The Bing Application Programming Interface (API) provides developers programmatic access to Bing, offering flexible options for building or enhancing your site or applications. This Web Application Toolkit shows how to take advantage of the Bing API to add search capabilities to your Web site, leveraging the various search results that the Bing API provides, including Web content, images, news and videos, among others.
This Web Application Toolkit has several focus areas. From one side, you will explore a set of user controls designed to incorporate Bing search capabilities into your Web site, learning how to retrieve and interpret the different types of Bing results. From another side, you will discover how to use ASP.NET AJAX and jQuery to provide an enhanced and more interactive end user experience, when using the Bing API. Finally, also included in the Toolkit, you will find a sample implementation of a LINQ to Bing provider that allows you run LINQ queries against the Bing API.
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Started: Sep 24 2009
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Web Application Toolkit for IE8 is designed to demonstrate how to implement the new features in Internet Explorer 8 (Web Slices, Accelerators and Visual Search Providers) to extend the reach of you...
Web Application Toolkit for IE8 is designed to demonstrate how to implement the new features in Internet Explorer 8 (Web Slices, Accelerators and Visual Search Providers) to extend the reach of your Web site and services also to those users that are not on your site. This toolkit includes a set of ASP.NET Web controls for IE8 that you can use to take advantage of these new features in your own Web application.
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Started: Sep 24 2009
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The majority of Web sites have the need to display a list of frequently asked questions to their users. Although it's not difficult to create a simple set of FAQ pages, creating a great user experi...
The majority of Web sites have the need to display a list of frequently asked questions to their users. Although it's not difficult to create a simple set of FAQ pages, creating a great user experience that supports searching for FAQs, filtering, and paging, can become more difficult. Furthermore, this is often common functionality that has to be implemented repeatedly in multiple Web sites.
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Started: Sep 23 2009
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