Is it possible to create a separated class library project as the web service of an ASP.NET MVC project? (Actually, I want to have an MVC Project and a class library project as its web service to call methods by using Ajax in the web project)
I tried this as the URL of ajax request but Ajax couldn't find it: ('Mine' and 'Service' are namespaces; 'UserService' is the name of the class, and the 'SignUpUser' is the method I want to call:
url: "Mine.Service.UserService/SignUpUser"
There is a much better way to call your web service.
You can use the WEB API in ASP.NET to expose your services and data rather than creating separated class library to call your web service
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I have a c# web API project that exposes a lot of methods through HTTP and I need to consume it in a c# web mvc application. I use the HttpClient class for this but my question is, how should I organize the access to this web API? for example, the web api project has n controllers, so I could create n IClient interfaces, one per API controller, in the mvc site, or just one big IClient that contains a method for every single API method exposed in the web api project? Is there a preferred approach for this? (that doesn't involve auto generated client code)
I am new to asp.net mvc world. So I have a question
I have already developed a web app using Asp.net MVC (also deployed on production).
Currently I am working on mobile apps. For this I need web services (restful).
For Restful web services do I have to make a new project (within existing solution) or can I incorporate Restful webservices into my existing (Asp.net MVC) project ? (I prefer 2nd option if possible)
If I have to make new project for Web Api, then how will I deploy both projects on production knowing that Web Api project is dependent on Asp.net-MVC project ?
One thing you need to understand first is whether it's a web service,wcf service or a Web API the only thing you need is to get a json/xml output which you can use in your mobile app.
Let say you have and asp.net mvc application which has some action methods, but you might be returning a View or PartialView which is not you want for a mobile app to parse. So you need to create an action method which returns JsonResult.
If you want to use all the RESTFul verbs like POST,PUT,GET,DELETE you can add another controller which inherits from APIController and write methods there, but either ways output is same.
So it's up to you what to do and how to proceed, only thing is with an APIController you will have some more verbs and code ahve some special returns like "Ok" e.t.c
I have a client dashboard application, written in ASP.Net MVC 4 (not bound to this version, happy to upgrade). The website is hosted in Windows Azure.
Our clients would like to programmatically access this dashboard, via an API.
Affectively they would like to be able to perform all of the same functions which they normally carry out on the dashboard website, programmatically from code using an HTTP Restful Service.
....My instant reaction was to simply build an ASP.net Web API project, and separate out the shared services/libraries/components from the existing MVC project so that both the API and the MVC website can call the same code base.
Questions
Is it possible to simply create Web API controllers within my existing MVC website project, and expose them over HTTP?
If it is not possible to do "1.", will Azure play nicely if I have an MVC solution, a separate Web API solution, and a shared library project of common services and models? How will I ensure that Azure copies the shared library components into the cloud when I deploy the MVC solution and the Web API solution separately?
Update
Based on the comments, the following implementation of two separate controllers (the original MVC controller within the MVC project, and an additional Web API controller within the same project), does in fact work. Please note that based on the following LINKED ARTICLE, the below implementation would be a "pre-MVC 6" implementation. MVC 6 itself provides the ability to implement both API calls and normally MVC View calls, into a single controller (as opposed to separate controllers that inherit from different base classes).
public class ProductsController : Controller
{
//Products/Index
public ActionResult Index()
{
return View();
}
}
public class ProductsAPIController : ApiController
{
// GET api/productsapi/getall
public IEnumerable<string> GetAll()
{
return new string[] { "value1", "value2" };
}
}
To be fair - MVC or WebAPI, as far as your consuming clients are concerned, it shouldn't matter.
Both MVC and WebAPI can create JSON or XML outputs - it's just one makes it a bit easier (WebAPI serializes the relevant response based on the client).
But you can quite easily mix the two together, as others have said, it's as simple as Add New Item
The newest version of MVC (6) has now integrated both technologies into one solution. http://www.asp.net/vnext/overview/aspnet-vnext/create-a-web-api-with-mvc-6
This would be ideally what you are looking for if you can start a new project.
Question 1: Yes it is, just take a look at the article above.
Question 2:
Azure will be fine if you have a MVC solution and also a WebApi solution, but I think you will need to run them under different websites (I'm not 100% on this).
Yes it will work fine. The only potential gotcha is you have to clearly separate your WebAPI routes from your MVC routes (like, for instance having all WebAPI routes under a /api/... prefix, this is the default).
If you do decide to do two separate projects for whatever reason and want to have a shared library, the best solution is to keep that library in a NuGet package on a private feed. TeamCity supports this out of the box, along with other nice features (continuous integration/deployment).
How to add webservice reference dynamically ?
I have created a class library project and i need to post data into a web service.
I don't want to consume web service as "Add Web reference" as i dont' want to use APP.CONFIG file and need to load this web service dynamically.
Please suggest me how dynamically i could load this web service inside this class library project ?
pLEASE share some code if possible.
Thank You
If you want to dynamically support different types of web services, they'll have to use an consistent interface so that a single set of classes can use the web services. Which will result in building a separate library.
Adding a Web reference dynamically at Runtime
How can I call / use web API that supports SOAP and REST? I want to write a program in C# that will use this web API. I didn't get much information on the internet. So far, I have created C# project and added the web service reference (WSDL) to my program. Now how can I use the web API. How to send request or receive response? Can you please refer me some good tutorials ?
The HttpClient class is a good starting point. Also there is the EasyHttp library.
Code sample HttpClient: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Introduction-to-HttpClient-4a2d9cee
Introduction to EasyHttp: http://devlicio.us/blogs/hadi_hariri/archive/2011/01/16/easyhttp.aspx
Adding web service reference creates client classes that can be used to communicate with web service. All created classes will be in new namespace, You have to look for client proxy class (full name depends on WebService name). Create instance of this class. Calling its methods will call WebService. Here you can read about using Web Services in C#