Adam K Dean

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Invoke callbacks with unknown arguments

Published 14 November 2013 in archive with tags javascript Whilst working on some instrumentation code, I had need to pass a function and an unknown number of arguments to another function which would then time the execution of that function. This turned out to be quite easy using fn.prototype.apply. Continue reading …

No MediaTypeFormatter is available

Published 24 October 2013 in archive with tags aspnet , 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'. Continue reading …

Enable AngularJS HTML5 Routing on IIS

Published 18 September 2013 in archive with tags urlrewrite , angular , 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: Continue reading …

Enable cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) in IIS

Published 18 September 2013 in archive with tags iis , webapi , cors , 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. Continue reading …

Force JSON with WebAPI

Published 18 September 2013 in archive with tags webapi , json , api , 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. Continue reading …



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