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How to broadcast a message from outside SignalR hub
October 08, 2013 by Anuraj
.Net .Net 4.0 ASP.Net MVC
Broadcasting a message from SignalR hub is pretty straight forward, but sometimes you may need to do the same from outside the hub, like from MVC controller or a Web Page.
How to use NuGet without adding packages to TFS
October 02, 2013 by Anuraj
.Net Team Foundation Server Version Control Visual Studio
In the recent project I was using few nuget packages. And I was using TFS. Committing these packages into TFS was increasing the size of the repository. Later I found a solution using Enable NuGet Package Restore option. You can enable this option by right clicking on the solution file or from Project > Enable NuGet Package Restore option.
How to configure WebAPI always return JSON
September 28, 2013 by Anuraj
.Net .Net 4.0 Web API
WebAPI will return JSON or XML based on the request accept header. But some times you may need to return JSON only, without considering the accept header.
How to return anonymous types from WebAPI
September 25, 2013 by Anuraj
.Net .Net 3.0 / 3.5 .Net 4.0 Web API
Sometimes you may required to return anonymous types from your WebAPI functions; I found a situation like this today, where I need to return list of values with a count, which was using to plot some graphs. Initially I thought of creating an class for this purpose with a count property, but later I found a simple solution using anonymous types.
Entity Framework Error - The underlying provider failed on Open
September 24, 2013 by Anuraj
.Net ASP.Net MVC Entity Framework
Yesterday while working on an ASP.Net MVC application, I got an error like this from Entity Framework Data Context. The problem started when I deployed the application in IIS server, while in the development server (IIS Express) it was working fine. In the connection string, I was using Windows Authentication.
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