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Building Mobile Applications Using Kendo UI Mobile and ASP.NET Web API

You're reading from   Building Mobile Applications Using Kendo UI Mobile and ASP.NET Web API Confident of your web application skills but not yet au fait with mobile development? Well this book helps you use the Kendo UI for a painless introduction. Practical tasks and clear instructions make learning a breeze.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782160922
Length 256 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Building a Mobile Application Using HTML5 FREE CHAPTER 2. Building Your First Mobile Application 3. Service Layer with ASP.NET Web API 4. Integration Using Framework Elements 5. Exploring Mobile Widgets 6. ActionSheet, ModalView, and More Widgets 7. Movie Tickets Application – Complete Integration Index

Parameter binding

Parameter binding is all about converting contents in an HTTP request to .NET objects so that values can be provided to action method parameters. Without parameter binding support, developers will have to write lots of error-prone and tedious code in action methods to retrieve parameter values from raw HTTP requests.

Input parameters are typically embedded in an HTTP request in URI as query strings, or in the body of the request. Web API uses a technique called Model Binding to read parameter values from the query string, and uses Formatters to read from the request body.

Model binding

If you are familiar with ASP.NET MVC, then you'll find that it's the same Model Binding concept being used in Web API for reading values from query strings, headers, or body encoded with application/form-url-encoded. When a request is encountered, value providers registered in the ValueProviderFactories class extracts data from the request and provides them to a model binder,...

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