I am looking for ASP.Net MVC implementation for reverse ajax comet/polling. Can anyone provide some good link or tutorial
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I suggest you to check PokeIn library.
PokeIn gives you an enhanced JSON functionality to makes your server side objects available in client side. Simply, it is a Reverse Ajax library which makes it easy to call JavaScript functions from C#/VB.NET and to call C#/VB.NET functions from JavaScript. It has numerous features like event ordering, resource management, exception handling, marshaling, Ajax upload control, mono compatibility, WCF & .NET Remoting integration and scalable server push.
There are 2 ASP.NET MVC samples on the link above.
Check out WebSync, a reverse AJAX/Comet server for .NET.
www.frozenmountain.com/websync/
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I am quite perplexed over the use of Web Api in a MVC application being developed at my company.I recently joined the project and wondering why they are using this.The application uses JQuery AJAX functionality to pull data for each Tab in a MultiTab Page without refreshing it.
The application here is neither providing data service nor consuming any Web API service.This can be easily achieved without using REST verbs.It is directly connecting to database like a typical web application.
I am holding back myself to raise this question with the team since I haven't used Web API much but has a conceptual idea.
Am I missing something here ?
Microsoft's Web API MVC technology is typically used for external components to interact with the system - not generally a requirement for a standard MVC Web Application.
With that said, I'm not perfectly clear on the architecture. A few points of note:
jQuery AJAX is a perfectly valid (and usually preferred) method to retrieve information for tab pages - it provides a SPA (Single Page Application) "feel" to the site and generally improves performance all around. This does not mean that they're using a Web API
MVC is a framework used for many web applications, including Microsoft's Web API projects as well as ASP.NET MVC Web projects. The use of MVC doesn't mean that they're using a Web API.
A RESTful approach isn't just for Web APIs. Indeed, many find it a cleaner approach when using regular MVC Web Applications, as it tends to be more semantic to what actions are actually being performed (GET to get a view, POST to post data, DELETE, etc.) There's no real reason not to use REST verbs (which are actually just HTTP verbs, but called "REST" when we use them in a certain way). The use of HTTP verbs doesn't mean that we're using a Web API.
To conclude, The MVC Web API framework is it's own technology that's similar to MVC Web Applications, but more geared towards working with non-visual requests and responses, instead tailored to programmatic interfacing.
If this is indeed a Web API being used and not a case of MVC practices that you happen to be unfamiliar with, then yes, I think it's a good question to raise (at least from a technical standpoint - politically, maybe not, but we can't answer that for you).
A typical setup is to have multiple projects, one of which is a Web Application, which makes use of shared project(s) for domain/business classes and data persistence. Additionally, a Web API project is often used to provide access to the system for external components, but this is a separate "presentation layer" project from the aforementioned Web Application.
There may be cases where a Web API application is written as the core interface between the internal system and the rest of the outside world, where the MVC Web Application then interacts with the Web API, but this is a corner case that should only be done with specific reason, in my opinion (unless I misread, this seems to be the case you're stating?)
Using both MVC and WebAPI together in a ASP.NET Web application is quite common. Whilst you can provide HTML through WebAPI and you can provide JSON through MVC it's much cleaner to use the best technology for each.
WebAPI in particular lets you define an API once and then generates JSON, XML, ... for you based on the request.
For a new SPA Web App which will initially have very little user interaction and incrementally will have new features which will require lot of user interaction. This app is targeted for mobile devices. I am using this weird combination of technologies.
AngularJS + jQuery Mobile - for Client Side - MVC framework + SPA framework.
ASP.NET MVC - Server side MVC Framework - which seems unnecessary.
WCF REST Services (from 3rd party) - Do not have any control here, just consuming it. These services returns JSON data. All business logic resides here. Application do not have any feature outside of this.
Once application loaded at client side all service calls will happen from AngularJS to REST Services.
The main role of ASP.NET MVC, is just initial request load only. Even user session is handled between AngularJS and REST services.
But I foreseen eventually application will be complex to handle all the stuff at client side. So looking to push some complex processing which is easy and efficient to get done using ASP.NET MVC and .NET Sandbox. I cannot ask REST Service to do this because as i mentioned it is 3rd party.
In dilemma,
1. Should i maintain user session on server side as well?
2. How can i utilize ASP.NET MVC best possible way?
Thanks for any suggestions.
Your dilemma is justified and valid. When I go with angularJs, my big question is , do i need to csthml file or shall i use the html file.
I always go with cshtml, hoping that in future there may be scenario where i may have to leverage the server side capabilities of the mvc.
Currently I am working on the same combination of technologies stated above and with modularity of arranging js codes(angular controllers) i don't see any issues. I am bit curious on what complexities you would be adding to the contoller as you have stated that all your business logic is done by the third partly controller.
If you are looking for security aspect, I would suggest you to write a custom actionfilter which uses httpmodule to do the custom security handling.
With MVC , sessions should be a BIG NO . At lease in my organisation it so.
I'm developing an ASP.NET MVC 3 application. I need this application to make use of an API I also need to implement. The API should both be available from ASP.NET MVC controller actions and Ajax. Now it is quite easy to make an API using ASP.NET MVC, but is it possible to use this from other ASP.NET MVC website actions? I guess the WCF is quite easy to use as it is just a service reference.
Other users of the API could be Windows Phone and iPhone.
Update:
Many only sees the API as a place where you consume data, but what about the part where you want to execute commands or do stuff, like add customer or change foo?
You may want to check our new WCF web API that was announced at PDC. We recently released a big upgrade. WCF Web API is designed specifically for allowing you to expose APIs to a range of clients in a pure HTTP manner. It is lightweight, offers a nice configuration story (no configuration files) and also is much easier to test.
You can download the bits at wcf.codeplex.com. It includes various samples, and there is also a set of NuGet packs for getting you started. Search for webapi.all on NuGet.
The way I like to do this is with RESTful controller actions. You can return JSON and use your calls with JavaScript on your own site. Other websites would almost certainly understand JSON and so they'd be able to consume your API pretty easily. This is much easier to write and test than a heavy WCF layer.
Check out this question for some example REST frameworks for MVC:
ASP.NET MVC REST frameworks
One of the newer ways of accomplishing data feeds is using OData. Scott Hanselman has a great introduction to it in Creating an OData API for StackOverflow including XML and JSON in 30 minutes.
It allows you to even throw LINQ queries into your URLs to retrieve exactly the data you need.
Open Data Protocol (Official site)
Open Data Protocol (MSDN, Microsoft)
WCF JSON binding was really terrible last time I used it. WCF also comes with all sorts of crazy rules about streams and how you have to use [MessageBody] attributes for everything.
It was a real PITA to me.
I knew I've answered something like this before:
What is the best way to implement a RESTful architecture in .NET today?
A 3rd party site sends its notifications after my web application has completed some action in order to notify me of its success. Receiving a notification item requires a response back to the 3rd party server (URL) with the a containing the value "accepted".
I have never user SOAP and with the basic info found I'm a bit lost for the case of asp.net mvc. Are there any good links showing the principle of receiving and sending SOAP responses?
Tutorials / information may be presented in other languages such as java, asp.net (classic) or something. I need to get a general idea since googling on SOAP has not given me anything for the past few hours.
You need to learn a little about WCF. See the WCF Developer Center, especially the Beginners Guide.
What you want is to create a simple WCF service that corresponds to the WSDL that they will give you. You will need to implement only the operation (method) that they will call to notify you. You can host a WCF service in IIS along with the rest of your application.
The issue will be how to correlate the notifications with the page you're on in your MVC application.
I don't think this is specific to ASP.NET MVC really. If you have a WSDL for their web service, just use that to generate stub classes using either wsdl.exe or by adding a web reference to your project, then call the web service from your controller.
If I remember correctly SOAP is basically xml requests and responses.
You might want to look into WSDL (Web Service Definition Language) to avoid having to deal with raw data, and you would likely find a great deal of tutorials on wsdl as well.
I have asp.net application which i am planning to convert into asp.net mvc app.
One area that i havn't found how it could be done is, App is using scriptmanager to make ajax calls to wcf service. And scriptmanager simply takes care or all element related to ajax, serializing - etc.
I haven't found what i can use in mvc that replaces that piece of functionality
Server hosting WCF service
MVC calling wcf service through ajax?
No controller, view etc to wrap wcf service to respond for ajax call
I found lot about using jquery, ajaxaction stuff but this don't look like exact replacement of scriptmanager like functionality.
If I understand your question, the easiest method would be to continue to use the ScriptManager control in the MVC port of the application.
The Polymorphic Podcast did a show on this topic. There are several potentially helpful links in the show notes.