[malu] super cool Android app development...

Wed Jun 6 20:24:37 CDT 2012

MVC 4 is actually in "release candidate" mode with a go-live license.  It
can be used with VS 2010 sp1 as long as you limit yourself to .net 4.0
language features.  Or, you can install the VS 2012 release candidate and
get .Net 4.5 with a go-live license.

Here's the link to the MVC4 page:  http://www.asp.net/mvc/mvc4

Web API is for all intents and purposes the replacement for WCF services.
You will be able to have server-side code provides services for everything
from a simple static HTML page with JavaScript to maybe a smart phone
client to even a Windows application talking to the Web server.

I'm really excited about some of the things that can be done with SignalR
in combination with Web API to handle real-time communications over port
80.

--
Bryan Johns
K4GDW

"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of
chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others
may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" --Patrick
Henry

> -----Original Message-----
> From: malu-bounces+bjohns=greendragonweb.com at lists.malu.org
> [mailto:malu-bounces+bjohns=greendragonweb.com at lists.malu.org] On
> Behalf Of Daniel J. Summers
> signalr Wednesday, June 06, 2012 7:37 PM
> To: bjohns at greendragonweb.com
> Subject: Re: [malu] super cool Android app development...
>
> MVC 4!  Dang it - I just got my REST web service written with MVC 3.  I
> wrote a nice service discovery API and everything.  It looks like the
> service discovery part could be reused.  I looked at the MVC 4 docs;
> I'd already seen their Bundling stuff, but it was a "this is coming
> soon" thing.  I didn't know it had been released.
>
> Keeping this a bit on topic - Mono does a pretty good job of running
> MVC 3.  I was running all my stuff on it until I made one of my apps
> multilingual; then, it recompiled the site for every page hit, and
> threw different exceptions when the language wasn't a valid language.
> (I hate "catch (Exception)"...)  So now, I'm running IIS for the web
> serving, and a Linux machine serving the MySQL and PostgreSQL stuff up.
> Both machines run better than the Linux one did when it was trying to
> do web and database both.  And, by the way, PostgreSQL rocks, in case
> any of you were wondering.  :)
>
> I don't think I'm going to rework my current service, but it's good to
> know.  (Although, the auto-serving content type based on the accept
> headers of the request is really, really nice...)  I wonder if you can
> have different areas in an MVC app with different APIs; that would fit
> with the way I've got mine structured already.
>
> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 9:56 PM, Krewe Maynard <krewemaynard at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> 	Says the guy who just posted it on Google+  :-)
>
> 	On Jun 5, 2012 5:12 PM, "Bryan Johns" <bjohns at greendragonweb.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> 		It does look interesting, although all you really need to
> accomplish very
> 		similar functionality today is access to a web server with
> .Net 4.5 and
> 		ASP.Net MVC 4 (which includes Web API).  Web API is an
easy
> (when compared
> 		to previous M$FT offerings) way to expose a REST-full
> interface to any
> 		client that can speak HTTP(S).
>
> 		For a Windows Phone 7 app, however, it might be hard to
get
> your app past
> 		the app store's battery-life police if it needs to run in
> the background.
> 		Last time I checked into it they had some very unrealistic
> requirements in
> 		that regard.  Something like the battery has to last 100
> hours with your
> 		app running in the background.  To get anywhere near that
> kind of battery
> 		life out of my Samsung Focus, I have to put it in airplane
> mode, lock the
> 		phone, and not use it for anything.
>
> 		--
> 		Bryan Johns
> 		K4GDW
>
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which
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>
> 		> -----Original Message-----
> 		> From: malu-
> bounces+bjohns=greendragonweb.com at lists.malu.org
> 		> [mailto:malu-bounces+bjohns <mailto:malu-
> bounces%2Bbjohns> =greendragonweb.com at lists.malu.org] On
> 		> Behalf Of Krewe Maynard
> 		> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2012 4:20 PM
> 		> To: bjohns at greendragonweb.com
> 		> Subject: [malu] super cool Android app development...
> 		>
> 		> ...from Microsoft
> 		>
> 		> http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/05/onx/
> 		>
> 		> This looks pretty sweet!
> 		>
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