Thanks to everyone who attended my Web API presentation this Tuesday at DC DNUG. The code samples and PowerPoint can be found here: https://github.com/smichelotti/WebAPI-presentation This includes "before" and "after" snapshots of the code including all snippets that were used during the course of the presentation....

This Tuesday (July 19), I'll be presenting the ASP.NET Web API at the DC DotNet Users Group [http://www.dcdnug.org/dnn/default.aspx]. Abstract: Modern web applications have seen an explosion in Web API creation. Twitter, Facebook, Google, Azure, you name it – it is becoming essential to provide a Web API so that consumers can build applications and mashups on top of your services. Web 2.0 has shown a trend away from SOAP towards a REST architecture style. With the new ASP.NET Web API, Microsof...

Thanks to everyone who attended my presentation last night on KnockoutJS [http://knockoutjs.com/] at the Richmond .NET User group [http://richmonddotnet.org/]. Code samples can be found here [https://bitbucket.org/smichelotti/presentation-knockoutjs]....

Tomorrow I will be presenting "Building Scalable Apps in Windows Azure [http://vslive.com/Events/New-York-2012/Sessions/Wednesday/W07-Building-Scalable-Apps-in-Windows-Azure.aspx] " at VS Live in New York City [http://vslive.com/events/new-york-2012/home.aspx] . I will be co-presenting with my colleague Vishwas Lele [http://vlele.wordpress.com/] of Azure fame. Should be a great event!...

A few weeks ago, Scott Hanselman blogged about the challenges with working with JSON dates and the ASP.NET Web API [http://www.hanselman.com/blog/OnTheNightmareThatIsJSONDatesPlusJSONNETAndASPNETWebAPI.aspx] . In the post he described how the current version of the Web API sends back dates in Epoch time [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time]. The conclusion of his post was that JSON.NET [https://github.com/JamesNK/Newtonsoft.Json], which the Web API will use OOTB, will use ISO 8601 for JSON da...