Does anyone know if there is a media formatter out there to support the jsonapi.org spec (application/vnd.api+json).
If not has anyone started (or looking at starting) a project to implement this?
For the record, as of today the answer seems to be no. Best I could find was this guy: http://www.emadibrahim.com/2014/04/09/emberjs-and-asp-net-web-api-and-json-serialization/ and that only tackles a tiny part of the problem.
I've been trying this for a while…unfortunately I tried to make something that was really smart and would automagically handle a data model from Entity Framework with almost no work. I was getting close to thinking about releasing it...and then I found out they changed a bunch of stuff in EF 6 (all models are supposed to be POCOs and the context is now a DbContext instead of an ObjectContext) and I'm probably going to have to essentially start over…which is why I started looking again to see if someone else was doing it and found your question.
Let me know if you're still looking for this, and I'll keep you updated.
UPDATE
I've just published a codeplex project that aims to provide exactly what I've described above. It's called JSONAPI.NET and while it's very early, it already does quite a bit. Documentation is sparse, and I don't have NuGet packages yet…but take a look everyone and see if it's useful for you. Feedback is encouraged! You can contact me from the project page in the link.
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We have a group of developers moving from C++ to C# and WinRT. We used D'Oxygen as part of our C++ developer builds, and I'd like to continue to have document generation as part of the developer build in C#/WinRT.
It's easy to turn on XML Doc generation, and I believe that will provide warnings for malformed tags, but without actual HTML output, I think our developers will be missing valuable feedback.
Looks like NDoc is now defunct, and I took a quick look at Sandcastle, but found it rather complex. Ideally, I'm looking for something that doesn't unduly burden developers, or require them to remember extra steps as they edit, build, test, and commit. In other words, the best solution would be something that "just happens", like a post-build step, and doesn't add significantly to each developer's build time.
If anyone has had some experience doing this in C#/WinRT, I'd sure like some advice.
Thanks in advance!
Get Sandcastle Help File Builder.
Create a help project for your library in the Visual Studio solution.
Remove Build check mark from Debug solution configuration to build the documentation project only in Release configurations, since Debug is most often used during development. For release build testing or performance testing you can either create another solution configuration or simply switch the option back and forth.
Build the documentation once
Include the documentation file in the solution so it shows up in the Pending Changes window when the file changes.
Kindly ask your developers to build with the release configuration that updates the documentation before check-in or use any other policy to require updating the documentation.
I don't think it makes sense to build the documentation all the time, but it helps to make it easy to do so that when you actually need an updated version - you can build it really quickly.
You can also make sure to use FXCop or StyleCop (forgot which) and configure it to treat missing XML documentation warnings as errors - at least in release builds. Doing it for debug configurations might slow down development and make changes difficult since developers often want to try things out before committing to a final implementation worth documenting.
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Sandcastle provides various output formats as shown in the project properties:
I would like to mention ForgeDoc (of which I'm the developer), it could be what you are looking for. It is designed to be fast and simple, and it generates proper MSDN-like HTML output. It also has a command-line interface so you can just call it from a post-build event command in Visual Studio.
I think you should give it a try, as I would really like to hear about your thoughts.
This is my first question on SO, so please bear with any mistakes/irregularities.
I wanted to implement SPA for my new project, Hence I reached Steve Sandersion's after some googling blog.
Looking at the code hosted on github, I noticed that I had to use EF to use Upshot, but my DAL is already written in Linq to Sql, which will be very tiresome to migrate to EF.
So my questions are as below
Has anyone successfully used upshot with L2S? If yes some example would help.
Is there any other way to implement the SPA without upshot so that I can reuse my DAL in L2S?
Edited
I just found today that this question stands useless, as using upshot will not be feasible. Microsoft has stopped working on Upshot.Some one please close this question.
I don't think it is possible. Microsoft has made it sure that people using Linq-to-sql don't survive.
Better use something like jquery and web api with some js mvvm libraries.
As far as I know this should be possible. When using upshot you don't need to use entity framework, you can do the wireing for your self.
In my ria 4 html demo, I make use of ria services to get the data from the server to the upshot client. This way it doesn't depend on the DAL you have. Ria services works by conventions, meaning insert, update and remove methods are present on every domaincontext and you can implement them as you want. For more info you can read this blogpost on setting everything up. And this on for the CRUD operations.
I am following example by José F. Romaniello on session management with NHibernate. It's a very good article, however I'm struggling with it having very little experience with NHibernate, Windsor and MVC.
I am trying to re-create NHibernateInstaller, however encountering the following error: Component Castle.TypedFactory.DefaultInterfaceFactoryComponentSelector could not be resolved. Make sure you didn't misspell the name, and that component is registered.
In the sample project provided this error does not crop up, even though the installer is identical and Google does not come up with any results (which is very unusual). What causes this and how can it be avoided?
it seems a problem with the TypedFactoryFacility... are you doing this?
kernel.AddFacility<TypedFactoryFacility>();
before running all the installers?
uncomment the following code in Bootstrapper.cs file.
container.AddFacility();
This happened to me when I created my own implementation of ITypedFactoryComponentSelector, but forgot to register the selector itself.
There was no indication this was the actual problem (and the kernel debug information assured me the components can be resolved) - but registering it fixed the issue.
Hope this helps someone :-)
Having recently read "Growing OO systems guided by tests", I am very impressed with the windowlicker testing utility for java/junit. Basically it wraps the GUI and GUI-interaction with drivers and gestures, so your integration/end-to-end tests can be written neatly like:
//setup
ui.enterUserDetailsFor(newUser)
ui.sendForm()
//assert
ui.showsWelcomeMessage()
All swing-gui-thread synchronization and finding widgets etc is nicely isolated in the framework. Exactly this sort of higher level testing is something I really miss in my current wxPython project. Is there anything at all similar for wxgtk/wxpython?
What I can tell from the windowlicker source it builds on java.awt.robot, if there isn't a windowlicker, is there anything like robot?
I haven't heard of anything specifically for wxPython. You can use the Widget Inspection Tool for some of the stuff you are talking about though. See here:
http://wiki.wxpython.org/Widget%20Inspection%20Tool
There's also the Sikuli project which is GUI-agnostic:
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/sikuli/
Hopefully one of those will help you out.
I am fairly proficient in PHP, but just starting out in ASP.Net and JSP/Java
I would like to learn JSP/ASP.NET XML to HTML transformation with some simple practical examples. Im not looking to learn how to edit XML, just displaying it, but im having trouble finding definitive examples/tutorials.
Ive spent quite a while studying JSP/ASP.NET but quickly find how vast they are and how many different ways there are to do this (quite frankly im a bit overwhelmed). I would be really grateful for advice before I embark upon this journey (and perhaps I will be saved from going in the completely wrong direction). If there are any tutorials or especially example apps you could point me towards this would really help (i like to do hands on learning)
For this I expect I need to do the following:
1) Set up a server for each technology (im using Tomcat and IIS at the moment - are these the best?)
2) Use some parameter based routing system (MVC?, but this is most surely overkill for me)
3) Parse the XML and create some variables/objects
4) Display the HTML (Use template libraries (JSTL? not sure for ASP.NET))
Any tutorials/example apps you could point me towards to help me through the above steps will be truly appreciated.
Thankyou
Ke
By the sounds of your skillset, carefully working through this developerworks tutorial on JSTL looks like a good place for you to start. It does cover the XML handling libs around part 4, and it'll also help you avoid the mistake of using scriptlets where JSTL would give cleaner, less error-prone and much more readable code.
You'll also most likely want IDE support, so that you get documentation, syntax checking and autocomplete. I personally use Eclipse (The EE download will have everything you need and more) but NetBeans might be the most straightforward to get your started.
Tomcat will be fine to get you started, but these IDEs tend to have build in web containers to save you time in deploying and testing.