One of he goals of the ASP.NET WebAPI is to make REST style API controllers more testable than more traditional WCF services where in the past. For the most part that is true but there are cases where an ApiController depends on the actual incoming request and its data and things can become a bit more difficult. Testing a simple ApiController that gets data Suppose we have the following ASP.NET WebAPI Controller with two Get methods, the first returns the complete list of books and the second returns...

  Index: Getting started with AngularJS Creating an AngularJS Controller The AngularJS $scope is not the MVC Model Using repeating elements in #AngularJS     In the previous  posts I showed how to get started with AngularJS and use some of the basic AngularJS directives to data bind. In these examples I uses a really simple single element to bind to. However in lots of business cases you really need to display a list of repeating elements. Fortunately this is really easy to do...

Recently I started exploring the world of Dynamics and specifically Dynamics CRM. Technically the platform looks fairly simple with a reasonably clean web services API (mostly SOAP) & SAML based message security (remember legacy WS-Trust ) using Live ID as the identity provider. The helper code from the sdk (\sdk\samplecode\cs\helpercode) hides all the complexity but [...] Blog Post by: zamd

  Index: Getting started with AngularJS Creating an AngularJS Controller The #AngularJS $scope is not the MVC Model   In the previous post I showed how to create and use an MVC Controller in AngularJS to manage the logic of an application. In this post I showed how to use the $scope variable that is passed into the Controller to share data between the Controller and the View. This may lead you to believe that the $scope is the MVC Model used but you would be completely wrong.   The...

In the previous blog post I showed how to get started with a really minimal AngularJS application. Even though the app could multiply two numbers it could hardly be called useful and as it turns out that is about as much as I could do with it. Model View Controller AngularJS is an MVC framework . So far we have only seen the View part as the HTML used was the view used to render the page to the user. As the name suggest there should be more in the form of a Controller and a Model. The Controller...