API controllers In the post about controllers we looked at how the http requests map to action methods in controllers to generate responses in HTML or any other ViewResult compliant format. An API controller on the other hand simply let you get access to application data. The general structure resembles Read more…
parallel programming This post will shed some light on parallel programming in .Net. The reasons why one wants to use it, what it does and how it is accomplished with .Net techniques from TPL. What this post will cover Why you need parallel programming, what is it, and how it Read more…
What is a Task? In the first two posts about asynchronous programming we saw what asynchronous programming is and which techniques .Net offers to accomplish different units of work in an asynchronous manner. Besides Threads, EAP and APM with .Net 4.0 yet another way for building asynchronous applications was introduced: Read more…
To get a deeper insight in what asynchronous programming is, refer to my Introduction. For starters asynchronous code simply has more than one piece of logic executed at the same time. In this post we are going to look at ways to accomplish asynchronous execution with programming techniques in .Net. Read more…
If you look at web services or interop in general, you will sooner or later find SOAP. SOAP is an acronym for Simple Object Access Protocol. This implies RPC and it is often associated with it. RPC stands for remote procedure call. This means to invoke a method on an Read more…