asp.net-web-api2

I have an ASP.NET MVC 5 Application which uses Identity 2.0 for authentication/authorisation. Now I want to provide access to the data in my web application to my Android Application via Web Api 2.0. My question is: How to control authorize/authenticate the access of my android application? On Android side I use "org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate" and add this HTTP header to my request: HttpAuthentication authHeader = new HttpBasicAuthentication("username", "password"); HttpHeaders requestHeaders = new HttpHeaders(); requestHeaders.setAuthorization(authHeader); HttpEntity<?>

Quick question regarding routes within MVC and WebAPI. I have added a route to route config.cs: routes.MapRoute( name: "ConfirmEmail", url: "ConfirmEmail/{userid}", defaults: new { controller = "Email", action = "ConfirmEmail" } ); This is registered in the global.asax as per normal: RouteConfig.RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes); I am trying to generate a URL for use within an email which is sent as part of a function call within a WebAPI controller function. I am using the UrlHelper.Link function to attempt to generate a URL, however I receive an error saying the route cannot be found by name

I have a web api method that takes format as a parameter that provides returning both xml and json.The data type that method return is DataTable.In json format everything looks fine but in xml format the schema of datatable and some other attributes in xml nodes also returning.How to return simple xml that includes only data of datatable?Also, I am using QueryStringMapping in WebApiConfig. This is WebApiConfig Code public static void Register(HttpConfiguration config) { config.MapHttpAttributeRoutes(); config.Routes.MapHttpRoute( name: "DefaultApi", routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/{action}/

I have an ASP.NET Web Api 2.0 project with token authentication and everything done mainly following this article: Token Based Authentication using ASP.NET Web API 2, Owin, and Identity , Bit Of Technology But I am struggling to understand what exactly this line of code in my Startup.cs does: app.UseCors(Microsoft.Owin.Cors.CorsOptions.AllowAll); This does not make the Web Api add the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header to my API responses, in other words it does not enable Cors in my Web Api (still trying to understand how to do this by the way). It does not even add it to my bearer token

I'm trying to create an API and a website client for it. Lately I've been reading a lot about OAuth2 as a security mechanism and companies that offers authentication as a service such as auth0.com or even Azure active Directory and I can see the advantages in using them Because I'm used to always having the users in the same database and tables with relationships to the Users table in the form of One to Many such as below public class User { public string subjectId { get; set; } public virtual List<Invoice> Invoices { get; set; } /* More properties in here */ } public class Invoice { public

I've got a following two controllers: [RoutePrefix("/some-resources") class CreationController : ApiController { [HttpPost, Route] public ... CreateResource(CreateData input) { // ... } } [RoutePrefix("/some-resources") class DisplayController : ApiController { [HttpGet, Route] public ... ListAllResources() { // ... } [HttpGet, Route("{publicKey:guid}"] public ... ShowSingleResource(Guid publicKey) { // ... } } All three actions got in fact three different routes: GET /some-resources POST /some-resources GET /some-resources/aaaaa-bbb-ccc-dddd If I put them into single controller everything