A while back we introduced Nancy templates for Visual Studio, which gave you the ability to create a new Nancy project that has Nancy added out-of-the-box. This meant no more creating an empty ASP.NET web application, removing all those pesky project references and installing the Nancy nugets, just to get up and running.
Unfortunately we have not been able to update these template with every new release of Nancy, which means you have had to update the Nancy Nugets to make sure you where using the latest build.
Believe me when I tell you that this has not been out of laziness, but rather the instinct to survive, but hopefully we've taken a couple of important decisions to remedy this in
In enterprise application the requirement for single sign on is common: Users are already authenticated against the domain controller - they don't want to jump through another authentication hoop to get access to your particular application. Setting this up in ASP.NET using WIF is some pretty easy web.config gymnastics and described elsewhere. The result of this setup is that the current principal on authenticated requests is a ClaimsPrincipal identifying the user in terms of the claims setup for him/her in the identity provided (e.g. your organizations Active Directory).
Below I show how to integrate the WIF authentication setup with your Nancy application - It doesn't take much, but lets
Below I show how to integrate the WIF authentication setup with your Nancy application - It doesn't take much, but lets
After a quick six month writing and editing process my Nancy book is published. It's available as e-pub, mobi, pfd and dead trees via the publishers site as well as Amazon, Amazon UK, and Safari.
What's it about?
Well, it about the Nancy web framework. Nancy is an awesome .NET based web framework that focuses on being both easy and fun to work with. Nancy lends itself to writing highly testable web application with simple, concise and readable code. Who doesn't want that?
The book starts from the very basics of getting Nancy up and running, but quickly moves into more interesting areas including dependency injection, hosting, content negotiation, authentication, async processing and
The video of the talk I did on Nancy at NDC is out.
The talk me writing some Nancy code, talking a lot about Nancy and at the end I have a simple todo application.
Enjoy!
The talk me writing some Nancy code, talking a lot about Nancy and at the end I have a simple todo application.
Enjoy!
As you may noticed (if you follow this blog or go to the same conferences as me) I really like the Nancy web framework. So naturally, since I've decided to finally learn F# properly, I threw together a hello world Nancy app in F#. It's very simple; the complete code is listed below. All I did was create an F# console application, install the Nancy and Nancy.Hosting.Self NuGet packages and type in this code, which will return the string "Hello" if you point your browser to "http://localhost:8888/nancy/":
So what's going in that code? Fist thing to notice is the type HelloModule which inherits NancyModule. On start up Nancy will pick up all NancyModules and run their constructor. In
So what's going in that code? Fist thing to notice is the type HelloModule which inherits NancyModule. On start up Nancy will pick up all NancyModules and run their constructor. In
In about a month from now I'll be at Warm Crocodile conference in Copenhagen. While there I'll be giving two talks, both on the Thursday. The titles and abstracts are:
- Introduction to Nancy: Nancy is a lightweight .NET web framework. It provides an easy to use, to-the-point alternative to the most commonly used .NET web frameworks. Nancy does not try to be everything to everyone. But it does try to be the super-duper-happy path to web development on .NET and Mono. Come get introduced to Nancy, and judge for yourself.
- Layers Consider Harmful : Layers are killing us. All the time. They are killing our communication. They are killing our speed. They are killing the others speed as well.
The talk on various "alternative" .NET web frameworks I did at Web.NET Conference is up on Vimeo:
It's a bit hard to see the slides, so you might want to get them off SlideShare:
Enjoy!
It's a bit hard to see the slides, so you might want to get them off SlideShare:
Enjoy!
I did a talk on "alternative" .NET web frameworks, because I think it's important to realize that there are serious alternatives to ASP.NET - even in .NET-land. Anyway here are the slides:
I did a talk on Nancy a week ago in the Aarhus -NET User Group. And in my own humble and unbiased opinion it went quite well :-) So I thought I'd share the slides with you - although they probably only make semi-sense without the talk to go along. Anyway here they are; enjoy.
Continuing my URL shortener sample (part I, II, III), I'll talk about one the things Nancy does quite differently from your average web framework: Nancys concept of hosting. At this point you may be thinking serves or clouds or storage etc, but that's not exactly what Nancy hosting is about.
Nancy Hosting
Nancy hosting is about which stack Nancy runs on top of. Such stacks include ASP.NET, WCF, OWIN, and self hosting. That means that a Nancy app can be run on top of any of those four hosts. You decide. So if you have an existing ASP.NET/IIS setup you can use it to run Nancy, if you have a WCF setup already you can use that.
The two last hosts may need a bit of introduction:
OWIN is
Nancy Hosting
Nancy hosting is about which stack Nancy runs on top of. Such stacks include ASP.NET, WCF, OWIN, and self hosting. That means that a Nancy app can be run on top of any of those four hosts. You decide. So if you have an existing ASP.NET/IIS setup you can use it to run Nancy, if you have a WCF setup already you can use that.
The two last hosts may need a bit of introduction:
OWIN is