Recently, I’m working on an API that should be accessed by both javascript and desktop clients. During debugging of the javascript client, I ran into the Same Origin Policy problem which prevented my javascript app to make XHR to the…
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Monthly Archives: April 2012
ASP.NET Webapi same origin policy workaround using Custom Http Headers
Review of uCertify ASP.NET Web Applications Development Training Kit
I’ve been using the 70-515-CSHARP – MCTS: Web Applications Development Training kit from uCertify for a week. A typical study-learn-practise guide to completing the Microsoft 70-515 exam. The software is installed and used as a desktop application. I’ll express my subjective views…
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SimpleCrypto.Net a PBKDF2 Hashing wrapper for .Net Framework
Recently, Jeff Atwood blogged about a hashing speed problem, so I decided to rewrite my library since many people will be searching for easier ways of implementing PBKDF2 hashing. So I moved and re-factored my PBKDF2 algorithm stated in this post into this…
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Force download of file from ASP.NET WebAPI
How to generate and download content as files from an ASP.NET WebApi action. This example is focused on text content. When returning a file, we actually utilize `HttpResponseMessage` for low level modification of http headers. First we return HttpStatusCode.OK, then set…
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Create/Generate an absolute url in asp.net webapi
To get the absolute Url to an action or route in your WebAPI controller that points to another action, play around with the following code: If the route is set to null, the first mapped route in the global.asax file…
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