In my previous post regarding an Angular file upload directive, I mentioned that I would also show how to upload to a WebAPI endpoint from that directive. Here we go..
Angular File Upload to WebAPI
posted on March 9, 2017 by long2know in angularjs, ASP.NET, WebApi
Working with User Local Timezone
posted on November 1, 2016 by long2know in angular, ASP.NET, JavaScript, WebApi
In an application that I’m currently working on, that deals with Sales data, there are instances when I need to apply date comparisons relative to a user’s local time. This is an interesting problem with which to deal.
Accessing OWIN Context within a filter attribute
posted on February 10, 2016 by long2know in ASP.NET, MVC, OWIN, Security, WebApi
With a new project we have, I was tasked with working on security. Initially, I used OWIN and cookie authentication to implement a simple login and all was good. However, we wanted to remove the ability to login and have it driven by an external site redirecting a user with a token.
Integrating client and server side validation (Part 1)
posted on October 30, 2015 by long2know in angular, ASP.NET, JavaScript, WebApi
Client side validation is pretty handy. However, as we all know, you can’t fully trust any data sent to your server from a web client. As such, we generally duplicate validation in both the client and server side scenarios. This isn’t a big problem, but it does create a disconnect when the client validation passes, but then the server validation fails. Even in duplication, I still want server-side validation to play an integral part of the overall user experience.
WebAPI Authorization in Views and Unit Tests
posted on September 28, 2015 by long2know in ASP.NET, MVC, WebApi
In my .NET 4.5 MVC projects, I already have helper methods/extensions that let me determine if a user has access to a particular controller action. This provides a nice mechanism to hide and show buttons, hyperlinks, or other UI action elements based on the authorization attributes that have been defined on the MVC Controller.
However, this is a bit more complicated with ApiControllers.