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Derek Comartin

One year of running the Windsor-Essex .NET Developers

I hosted the very first Windsor-Essex .NET Developers meetup back in June 2016.  It’s been a full calendar year and we’ve since had 12 meetups.  I figured now would be a good time for some reflection on how the year went and where we want to go.   Speakers In my previous update, I mentioned how getting speakers hadn’t been that difficult.  Although the pool of speakers I had in mind when I started the group has shrunk, as time goes on enables us to have them speak again. One change has been my connection with other Microsoft MVPs.  Getting… Read More »One year of running the Windsor-Essex .NET Developers

Self Descriptive HTTP API in ASP.NET Core: Hypermedia Clients

This post is in my Self Descriptive HTTP API in ASP.NET Core series. It demonstrates how to design an HTTP API like a regular HTML website. This specific posts covers hypermedia clients. If you’re new to this series, here are earlier posts to get up to speed: Intro Object as Resource Hypermedia Siren HATEOAS If you have any questions, please follow me on Twitter. Hypermedia Clients My perception is that most people new to hypermedia driven APIs think that consuming hypermedia happens via a magic library. Or via some code generation that ultimately gives you a client library that understands every endpoint. I’m not… Read More »Self Descriptive HTTP API in ASP.NET Core: Hypermedia Clients

Self Descriptive HTTP API in ASP.NET Core: HATEOAS

This post is in my Self Descriptive HTTP API in ASP.NET Core series. It demonstrates how to design an HTTP API like a regular HTML website. Bringing the concepts of links and actions to your API allows your clients to consume it with ease. If you’re new to this series, here are earlier posts to get up to speed: Intro Object as Resource Hypermedia Siren If you have any questions, please follow me on Twitter. Actions In my last post I covered outputting a siren hypermedia payload from our ASP.NET Core MVC application.  Specifically I showed linking to each Todo item within… Read More »Self Descriptive HTTP API in ASP.NET Core: HATEOAS