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How to implement timing-mechanism for fantasy draft process utilizing ASP.NET Core 3.1 SignalR

I have developed a Fantasy Draft system utilizing ASP.NET Core SignalR, along with Azure's SignalR service (for backplane/scaling stuff). Last year I utilized a poor-mans' javascript version that just ...
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Why use Grunt for JavaScript-related files instead of relying on MSBuild?

In a Microsoft ecosystem (i.e. WebForms/MVC/WebAPI VisualStudio projects) why should I rely on an external task runner for JavaScript files like Grunt if I already have MSBuild at my disposal as the ...
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Designing a web based smart card publisher

I'm working on an application that's supposed to have a web based GUI where you can insert some data. That data will be saved in persistent storage and a hex number generated and stored alongside. ...
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What is better to return from the controller - a JsonResult or a string?

I have a WebAPI application and I have a controller method which is used to return a json result to the UI. Now, I can either return a string (because the json is basically a string - and it works ...
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Large invoice database structure and rendering

Our client has a MS SQL database that has 1 million customer invoice records in it. Using the database, our client wants its customers to be able to log into a frontend web site and then be able to ...
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To use or not to use a backing app for website?

By suggestion in comments, I'll try to rephrase my question to better reflect my problem: I have to present users (few at first, as many as possible later) with a website. There they will be able to ...
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Is it a good idea to develop website that only has little access to DB? CRUD will be done by calling API provided by separate internal backend system

I'm going to start developing an application in near future. This application consists of : Back-end system. This system provides API to be used by client. This system connects to data store and 3rd ...
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Do we need even more web frameworks in C# now that async await is here

Developing endless frameworks for web application, websites and web services is always great fun. It's one of the richest areas where you have 100 different ways of achieving pretty much the same ...
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Is it better to define all routes in the Global.asax than to define separately in the areas?

I am working on a MVC 4 project that will serve as an API layer of a larger application. The developers that came before me set up separate Areas to separate different API requests (i.e Search, ...
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What are some good ways for an experienced .NET client developer to start learning web development? [closed]

My background is as follows. I've been programming since I was young, worked in BASIC, then Asm for M68K, then C, C++, and now I've spent the past 5 years in .NET becoming a rather good .NET ...
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PHP and performance

I always hear that PHP is for medium and small websites whereas .NET and Java for enterprise applications. My question is about PHP. Why is PHP not a good option for enterprise web applications? Is it ...
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How to update display during large processing job

I have an ASP.NET C# application that needs to go off and iterate through a directory of .xml files and do some processing on the data inside them. This is easy enough, but i need to display the ...
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How should data be passed between client-side Javascript and C# code behind an ASP.NET app?

I'm looking for the most efficient / standard way of passing data between client-side JavaScript code and C# code behind an ASP.NET application. I've been using the following methods to achieve this ...
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Exposing business logic as WCF service

I'm working on a middle-tier project which encapsulates the business logic (uses a DAL layer, and serves a web application server [ASP.net]) of a product deployed in a LAN. The BL serves as a bunch of ...
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ELMAH - Where does it fit right...?

The question title may not be correct. I have worked in a very big ASP.NET web application (without using MVC), there I used a simple error handling strategy : Enclose every statement in try..catch ...
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