OWIN KATANA TopShelf Nancy

OWIN and KATANA:
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/826757/Understanding-OWIN-and-Katana
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/864725/ASP-NET-Understanding-OWIN-Katana-and-the-Middlewa
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/864725/ASP-NET-Understanding-OWIN-Katana-and-the-Middlewa
http://www.asp.net/aspnet/overview/owin-and-katana



TopShelf:
Tutorial: http://docs.topshelf-project.com/en/latest/configuration/quickstart.html

Windows Service creation:
http://dontcodetired.com/blog/post/Painless-NET-Windows-Service-Creation-with-Topshelf.aspx
http://blog.amosti.net/self-hosted-http-service-in-c-with-nancy-and-topshelf/
https://lunaverse.wordpress.com/2012/03/30/self-hosting-webapi-as-a-windows-service-with-topshelf/

Good Technical Study Links:

MVC Fluent API EF

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/796540/Relationship-in-Entity-Framework-Using-Code-First

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/801545/Code-First-Migrations-With-Entity-Framework

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/640302/CRUD-Operations-Using-Entity-Framework-Code-Fi

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/644605/CRUD-Operations-Using-the-Repository-Pattern-in-MV

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/814768/CRUD-Operations-Using-the-Generic-Repository-Patte

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/838097/CRUD-Operations-Using-the-Generic-Repository-Pat

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Simple Web Token

https://lbadri.wordpress.com/2012/07/30/anatomy-of-a-simple-web-token-swt/

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Instrumentation and Performance Metrics

https://www.simple-talk.com/dotnet/performance/building-performance-metrics-into-asp.net-mvc-applications/

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SOA Patterns and standards:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4019902/soa-joining-data-across-multiple-services

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/115958/is-it-bad-practice-for-services-to-share-a-database-in-soa

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms954596.aspx#

http://www.enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com/patterns/messaging/index.html

https://www.soapui.org/testing-dojo/best-practices/understanding-rest-headers-and-parameters.html

http://soapatterns.org/compound_patterns/enterprise_service_bus

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WebAPI / REST related:

http://forums.asp.net/t/1807761.aspx?Features+performance+comparisons+between+WCF+s+WebHttpEndpoint+and+ASP+NET+web+api+

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21758615/why-should-i-use-ihttpactionresult-instead-of-httpresponsemessage

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Precompile controllers and views

https://razorgenerator.codeplex.com/discussions/273663

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/BINDeployingASPNETMVC3WithRazorToAWindowsServerWithoutMVCInstalled.aspx

http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/97fc7a/article-precompiled-razor-view-using-razorgenerator-mvc-and/

http://toreaurstad.blogspot.in/2011/09/simple-access-of-embedded-resources-in.html

Lazy(T) Class

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd997286(v=vs.110).aspx

http://www.dotnetperls.com/lazy

https://sankarsan.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/laziness-in-c-4-0-lazyt/

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6847721/when-should-i-use-lazyt/21491131#21491131

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Weak Reference Class

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.weakreference(v=vs.110).aspx

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/664282/Understanding-weak-references-in-NET

http://www.dotnetperls.com/weakreference

http://tipsandtricks.runicsoft.com/CSharp/WeakReferences.html

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15593/practical-use-of-system-weakreference

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/185345/when-to-use-weak-references-in-net

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SOA Entity Composition:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms954596.aspx#

ASP.NET pre-compile into a single assembly

Approach 1: (From StackOverflow)
The easiest way to do this is to Create (or change) your project as (or to) an "Asp.Net Web Application" rather than the "Asp.Net Web Site". The process of converting is not that hard, but you will need to move everything out of the app_code folder, as WAP (Web Application Projects) projects do not have code inside app_code.

This will cause your project to be compiled into a single dll, rather than the "dll per page" or "dll per directory" scheme that the web sites normally work off of. It will also force you to resolve any type name problems (IE: if you have 6 pages called Default), It's important when you make a single assembly that fully qualified names be unique.

This will give you a proper project file (build script) and dump all your dll's out to the /bin folder when you compile.

You can then use something like ILMerge to combine all your assemblies in the /bin folder into a single dll if that's what you want to do. This assumes all your references are managed assemblies, if you have any non .Net libs it's going to be a lot trickier, although still not impossible.

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Approach 2: Use the aspnet_merge.exe Utility to Merge Assemblies
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Approach 3: Compile MVC project to a single DLL embed your js and css files. When you publish, in the configure part of the settings tab (see capture below), be sure to uncheck "allow precompiled site to be updatable" <--- a="" and="" assembly="" br="" chose="" compile="" control="" cshtml="" in="" merge="" page="" single="" the="" will="">

By default there is an assumption that whoever has access to your views and DLLs is trusted. If they have your files, they can do whatever they want with them.

By the nature of HTML, there is no point in trying to conceal your content files such as javascript and CSS. These files are served to the client regardless, so they are always retrievable.

If you want to put your views into DLLs, you can look into RazorGenerator.

A Custom Tool for Visual Studio that allows processing Razor files at design time instead of runtime, allowing them to be built into an assembly for simpler reuse and distribution. Please note that what you're doing is known as "Security through obscurity".(Security through obscurity is the use of secrecy of the design or implementation to provide security).Security through obscurity is discouraged and not recommended by standards bodies.

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Approach 4: Packaging ASP.NET ASPX Pages into a separate Assembly

Read here

Find Max length of string array

My requirement was to get the string with the longest value and the shortest value from a huge array. Naturally I was inclined to use the Max() and Min() extensions of Array. But it was throwing queer results. I was stumped, why was it not behaving uniformly? Then I realized for Max or Min on a string all it does is a alphabetical sorting and returning the top and the bottom of the sorted list. I also added a simple lambda solution to it.

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