Published 24 October 2013
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aspnet
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webapi
You may have come across the error message No MediaTypeFormatter is available to read an object of type T from content with media type 'text/plain'. during your adventures in ASP.NET Web API. Tonight it was my turn to be faced with this bothersome little 'issue'.
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Published 18 September 2013
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urlrewrite
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angular
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iis
AngularJS has the ability to use HTML5 routing, which means that rather than having your application using a hash (#) sign and then the route, it can instead get rid of the hash and still function as a Single Page Application. For example:
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Published 18 September 2013
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iis
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webapi
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cors
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webconfig
If you're hosting your API on a different domain to your app, such as api.domain.com, you may be hitting into some cross-origin request roadblocks. In IIS, this is pretty easy to fix -- or well -- disable.
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Published 18 September 2013
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webapi
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json
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api
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csharp
Sometimes when you call a WebAPI through the browser, you'll be served XML. This may make it easier to read, but it's really not helping us when all we really want is JSON. Putting the following snippet into the end of Application_Start() in Global.asax.cs will force your WebAPI application to always send JSON.
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Published 11 September 2013
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sublimetext
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emmet
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zencoding
For those who don't know, Zen Coding -- or Emmet as it's now known -- is a set of plugins for text editors that allow for high-speed coding and editing in HTML, XML, XSL, and other structured code formats via content assist. (Thanks Wikipedia!)
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