API Management Tips & Tricks – Importing Swagger 2.0 Docs

3rd of March, 2016 / / 5 Comments

API Management (APIM) offers many features for consumers to use by providing a unified endpoint. In order to achieve this consolidation, importing existing API definitions is one of its key functionalities. APIM supports both document types in WADL and Swagger to import APIs. In this post, we’re going to discuss what we should know when dealing with Swagger documents.

The Issue

Importing Swagger document into APIM is pretty straight forward by following this Azure document.… [Keep reading] “API Management Tips & Tricks – Importing Swagger 2.0 Docs”

Implementing Application with Office 365 Graph API in App-only Mode

14th of December, 2015 / / 9 Comments

Microsoft has recently release Microsoft Graph to easily integrate Office 365 resources with applications. Graph API basically provides one single endpoint to call bunch of Web APIs to get access Office 365 resources.

In order to use Graph API from another application, the application must be registered in Azure Active Directory (AAD) first. When the application is registered, we can choose how the application is permitted to use resources – application permissions or delegate permissions. The latter one typically requires users to provide user credentials like username and password to get a proper access token.… [Keep reading] “Implementing Application with Office 365 Graph API in App-only Mode”

Testable Entity Filtering for Service Context on Dynamics CRM 2015

2nd of December, 2015 / / 1 Comment

MS Dynamics CRM provides several web service endpoints. This is one of those endpoints, for organisation service.

One of the greatest benefits using this endpoint is to create a context class derived from CrmOrganizationServiceContext, which works as like DbContext from Entity Framework. The context class can be generated by CrmSvcUtil.exe that is shipped in CRM SDK.

When you directly run the following command in the Command Prompt screen, or put the command in build.bat… [Keep reading] “Testable Entity Filtering for Service Context on Dynamics CRM 2015”

Resource Manager Cmdlets in Azure PowerShell 1.0

24th of November, 2015 / / 5 Comments

Azure recently launched the 1.0 version of PowerShell cmdlets. The changes are huge, including new Azure Resource Manager (ARM), which resulted in deprecating Azure-SwitchMode between ASM and ARM. In this post, we only have a brief look at how new PowerShell cmdlets for ARM have been introduced, especially for managing resource groups and templates.

Installation

In order to get the newest Azure PowerShell, using MS Web Platform Installer is the quickest and easiest way.

Note: At the moment of writing, the released date of Azure PowerShell is Nov.

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Building Applications with Event Sourcing and CQRS Pattern

16th of November, 2015 / / 4 Comments

When we start building an application on cloud, like Azure, we should consider many factors. Those factors include flexibility, scalability, performance and so on. In order to satisfy those factors, components making up the application should be loosely coupled and ready for extension and change at any time. For those considerations, Microsoft has introduced 24 cloud design patterns. Even though they are called as “Cloud Design Patterns”, they can be used just for application development anyway.… [Keep reading] “Building Applications with Event Sourcing and CQRS Pattern”

Creating Service Contract with AutoRest, Swagger and HAL

26th of October, 2015 / / 10 Comments

According to Richardson Maturity Model, REST API level 3 should provide hypermedia within responses as metadata, so that users can easily navigate to other resources. This is particularly important if Microservices architecture (MSA) is considered for your service or application. Because MSA is a collection of small REST API services, each API server should provide complete set of documents or manuals for others to consume it properly. In order to provide document automation, Swagger is one of the best choices, and HAL, in order to provide hypermedia within the response, is also yet another option.… [Keep reading] “Creating Service Contract with AutoRest, Swagger and HAL”