To give you a flavor of the differences you should think about when designing message-based services in ServiceStack I’ll provide some examples comparing WCF/WebApi vs ServiceStack’s approach: WCF vs ServiceStack API Design WCF encourages you to think of web services as normal C# method calls, e.g: public interface IWcfCustomerService { Customer GetCustomerById(int id); List<Customer> GetCustomerByIds(int[] … Read more
We are migrating to Booksleeve, which was developed by the people who have built StackOverflow itself. So far we had very good experiences. The money is not the issue (the cost of migration is higher than paying for the license), we’re doing it because we just don’t want to enter a business relationship with company … Read more
Using the CorsFeature plugin Enabling Global CORS support We now have a CorsFeature which wraps CORS headers into the Plugin below to make it much easier to add CORS support to your ServiceStack services. Commonly this is now all that’s needed: Plugins.Add(new CorsFeature()); Which uses the default values: CorsFeature(allowedOrigins:”*”, allowedMethods:”GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS”, allowedHeaders:”Content-Type”, … Read more
Update for Linux From the v4.5.2 Release ServiceStack now supports .NET Core which offers significant performance and stability improvements over Mono that’s derived from a shared cross-platform code-base and supported by Microsoft’s well-resourced, active and responsive team. If you’re currently running ServiceStack on Mono, we strongly recommend upgrading to .NET Core to take advantage of … Read more
What’s the current best solution for generating HTML from ASP.NET Razor templates within a Console Application? RazorEngine. Full stop.
Could not load file or assembly System.Runtime.CompilerServices.Unsafe It seems that you have installed System.Runtime.CompilerServices.Unsafe nuget package 4.5.3 version. And it corresponds to System.Runtime.CompilerServices.Unsafe.dll assembly version 4.0.4.1. Suggestion 1) Please try to register System.Runtime.CompilerServices.Unsafe version 4.0.4.1 into GAC so that the system can it. Run Developer Command Prompt for VS2019 as Administrator type: cd xxxxx (the … Read more
Firstly “Best” solution is a fairly subjective term. I’ll generally aim for DRY, re-usable, performant solutions that promotes the least effort, friction and chattiness, whilst others may define “Best” in how closely it follows the principles of REST. So you will get varied responses depending on what the goals are. I can only offer how … Read more
Generally you only use RequireJS in its loading form during development. Once the site is done and ready for deployment, you minify the code. The advantage here is RequireJS knows exactly what your dependencies are, and thus can easily minify the code in the correct order. Here is what it says on the RequireJS website: … Read more
Short answer: Use actions at the end of the url to change state. Github does it like this to star a gist: PUT /gists/:gist_id/star Explained here https://developer.github.com/v3/gists/#star-a-gist Long Answer: Your objective is making your applications effortless to use an intuitive. Your users should use your app in the simplest possible way. Your users should not … Read more
You have several options: use ILMerge (free) For howto see here and here OR use some tool like SmartAssembly (commercial) it can embed and merge among other things (no need to change your source code) OR code that yourself in less than 10 lines (free but minimal source code change) mark all needed dependencies as … Read more