by Derek Du

We struggled with Windows Azure websites because we couldn’t write logs. Using Log4Net to write to log files as we usually do, does not work for Azure Websites because of the limited file permission. We had to resort to email notifications or Virtual Machine when we needed to debug Azure Websites, which was a big headache!

Fortunately, it is all over now. To write t...

by Derek Du

If a WebAPI service takes a long time to complete, the caller -- the client side -- may timeout waiting for a response. There are several options to solve this issue, you can increase the timeout limit on the client side and web server side, or use a more persistent connection method like WebSocket and SignalR.

I propose a different way to avoid the timeout issue that all...

by Jacky Xu
Here are some great articles I read this week while working on projects and doing client support. I hope they help you with your projects.

View Components and Inject in ASP.NET MVC 6 http://www.asp.net/vnext/overview/aspnet-vnext/vc

This article covers how to create a view component in ASP.NET MVC 6 and how to inject a service into a view.
 

Office and Dropbox to Work Togeth...

by Joe Zhou
Here are my favorite articles I read this week.

1.       The ASP.NET Team shared their wisdom on how to develop ASP.Net vNext application on a Mac.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2014/08/12/develop-asp-net-vnext-applications-on-a-mac.aspx
2.       As the team lead with team members at different locations, I found Ma...

by Jacky Xu
Here are my favorite articles I read this week:

Programmatically Encrypt and Decrypt Configuration Sections in web.config 



EF Code First - Defining Foreign Keys using Data Annotations and Fluent API 
 

Routing in ASP.NET Web API 

by Joe Zhou

Here are my favorite articles I read this week:
1.       To Sync or Not to Sync
This article clarifies the role of asynchronous programming and helps you make the right decision.
2.       5 reasons why bugs still plague us
InfoWorld’s article explains why you need to spend time locking down your code.
3.  &n...

by Joe Zhou

Here are the most interesting three articles I read this week:

 1.       Getting Started with ASP.NET  vNext and Visual Studio "14"... http://bit.ly/1mQi6xW

To be honest, I don’t like the new name for the next generation ASP.NET. vNext just sounds like pre-millennial. But I have to praise the move to merge MVC, Web API, and Web Pages ...

by Jacky Xu
A WebSocket connection is established by an HTTP handshake (prefixed by "ws://" or "wss://") between the client and the server. 
The client sends a request:

Then the server sends a response to accept the connection:
...

By Derek Du

For a recent project, we figured out a way to use Windows.Forms.WebBrowser in an Asp.net application, and I have written a blog about it. Later we found that after the application had run for a while, it would throw out an exception from the web application that prevented the application from using the web browser control until the application pool was restarted. The error message was...