Api Domain Redirection
Hi guys, Our company is moving their production server to different hosting provider. We have bunch of rest api's deployed on our existing production server. We want to host these web services on the...
View ArticleThe type initializer for 'System.Web.Http.GlobalConfiguration' threw an...
Hi everyone,I've updated my WEB API 2 project's nuget packages.Previously, it ran fine, but now, when I start debugging the application, it throws me an exception:Could not load file or assembly...
View ArticleError showing while inserting in to table using WebApi in webform
Iam new to WebApi.I want to add records into table using webapi in a webform.I created a webform application.Iam using VS2013 Ultimate.I the Models folder I add class file Cutomers public class...
View ArticleConsuming webapi with two parameters
HelloI am trying calling an api passing two parameters just for test.public void GetBalance(string accountNumber,int officeId) { using (var client = new WebClient()) {...
View ArticleWhy does API call work in Sharepoint site but not subsite
API published to an internal IIS site (http://mysite:40):[EnableCors(origins: "http://mylocalweb , http://mylocalweb/subsite", headers: "*", methods: "*")] //mylocalweb is the sharepoint site and...
View ArticleAlternative of Session in web-api asp.net 2?
I need to store information related to every user, when user login till user logout. Is there alternative of session in web.api asp.net. Or there is better approach for implementing this.Scenario [ WEB...
View ArticleBest Security Practices for Web APIs
My question is not about securing Web APIs (adding Authentication and the like), but more about the questions a Security Expert would pose. For example, how to prevent someone from discovering API...
View ArticleWeb API - 404 Error
Web API Controller:[EnableCors(origins: "*", headers: "*", methods: "*")] public class HomeController : ApiController { private HomeDataProvider homeDataProvider = new HomeDataProvider(); // GET...
View ArticleOnly allow specific web site to call web api
Suppose I have my web api A.Suppose I have my angularjs B.A contains method which is very critical and must only be called by B.What is the easy and secure way to allow method of A to only be called by...
View ArticleHow to create a Login Web Api for different mobile user to login
Hi I m a newbie in Web Api.say I have create an asp.net MVC app to register a user with username and password.Which web service I should use for iOS/Android/Xamarin user to login?I m a bit confused as...
View ArticleGoogle analytics API
Hello Everyonei want to implement google analytic API in my web application. if a register user enter his website link and other credentials application show statistics of his website. The problem is...
View ArticleAutomatically expand related entity with OData Controller
Hello,I'm writing an API to allow a supplier to connect to us. They've specified how they want it.For one part they want a GET action for Items. An Item has a colletion o f prices in it.Normally I woul...
View ArticleHow can I change this JSON output
I am using a very simple webapi as follows [HttpGet("{orderId}")] public IEnumerable<object> Get(string orderId) { var ohRows = from oh in _context.oh where oh.OrderNumber == orderId select new {...
View ArticleHow can I re-write this filter expression to support an AND operator across...
Hello, I have a model that is returned over an endpoint /brands that looks like this{ Count : int , Items: [ Name : string , Tags : [ KeyId : guid , Name : string ] ] }When I use an ANY filter...
View Articleopen postman json response url in chome
Hi All I testing my API in Postman. My question is it possible to open postman json response url in chome? if possible how?
View ArticleReturn Type from POST Method
Hi,I have a POST method in my controller. This method has a return type of void. Should I be usingIHttpActionResult as the return type? I am looking to find what is best practice.Should my repository...
View ArticleRetrieve data from api
Hi,I'm new to web api. I wanted to post data to external api and retrieve result. Can I do that using web api. I know If I use soap web service I can retrieve data from external parties. Is web api...
View Articlenot executing [HttpPost]
Hi,I am trying to insert data using stored procedure in Web API.[HttpPost] is not getting executed [HttpGet] is working within the same controller.Controller code[HttpPost] public IHttpActionResult...
View ArticleWeb API 2 return custom error object
Hello,I've searched this intensive but can't get it to work.I've haven an Web AP2 OData API and need to return a custom error class.Here is what I have:public class Error { public string...
View ArticleReturning large amount of data from server to be used on different screens on...
I am working on an api that needs to support a mobile phone application, and I am working with existing code that feeds data to the api's that cant be modified. Also the phone application is supposed...
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