Creating an ASP.NET MVC 4 RESTful API for a SQL Stored Procedure

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In order to use the information from the SQL stored proc I implemented that would create a JSON Object from a SQL table, I needed to build an RESTful API web service that would retrieve the JSON for use elsewhere. Finding information on building an ASP.NET-based API that used a stored proc to pull the … Read more

Storing Session State for an ASP.NET Site in a SQL Server Database

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When using session state in an ASP.NET Web application, you have several options. If you want to store it in your application database, as opposed to the ASPstate database (created at the command line with “aspnet_regsql -S [server] -E -ssadd -sstype c -d ASPstate”), I have scripted the database objects and stored them in GitHub … Read more

Changing Oracle Databases at Run-time with Crystal Reports Viewers in ASP.NET

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As part of the legacy application upgrade I’ve been doing, I decided to move the Crystal Reports to a Web application rather that having the users access them directly on Crystal Reports XI via Citrix, which has been the method they have been using.  This has several advantages, the primary one being speed.  One problem … Read more