Steve Sanderson gave a very interesting presentations at Techdays 2012 in the Netherlands. In one of them he presented a library that he used for client-server communication in MVC application: Upshot.
I was really amazed how easy it was to use it, so I wanted to download and test it. I found the download link here through NuGet, but I cannot find any documentation. Does anyone have something that works? I would also appreciate the sample code that Steve showed as during presentation.
EDIT:
I found the online presentation I attended at Techdays. It's soooo much worth seeing. You will get a glance of what upshot is capable of and also get an idea how to start with it. Good luck and have fun.
The link: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechDays/Techdays-2012-the-Netherlands/2159
I found one which is one of the MS samples for SPAs (which might be the only one for now):
ASP.NET Single Page Application (SPA) BigShelf
The complete tutorial on this project can be found here: BigShelf
Edit:
See this tweet from Steve Sanderson: https://twitter.com/#!/stevensanderson/status/171561402597773312
We're setting up a website for Upshot/SPA right now. Hopefully will go live this week! Sorry for delay.
Edit: see blog post of Steven over here with sample download code: http://blog.stevensanderson.com/2012/03/06/single-page-application-packages-and-samples/
Don't know either how to access the helper, would love to know so I can play with it :-)
This seems to do the trick for now:
<script src="../../Scripts/knockout-2.0.0.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="../../Scripts/upshot.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="../../Scripts/upshot.compat.knockout.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
upshot.metadata({ "CLASSNAME:#NAMESPACE":{ "key": ["aId"],
"fields": {
"aId": { "type": "Int32:#System" },
"Title": { "type": "String:#System" },
"Description": { "type": "String:#System" },
"Effort": { "type": "Double:#System" }
}
}
});
var myDataSource = new upshot.RemoteDataSource({
providerParameters: {
url: "http://localhost:7018/api/CONTROLLERNAME",
operationName: "",
operationParameters: {}
},
entityType: "CLASSNAME:#NAMESPACE"
});
myDataSource.refresh(function (results) {
alert(results[0].Title());
});
</script>
You need to replace CLASSNAME:#NAMESPACE with your classname and namespace, so for example: "WorkItem:#MySystem.Models".
And replace the CONTROLLERNAME with the actual name of the controller, in the case of this
public class MyTasksController : ApiController
you will need to replace CONTROLLERNAME with MyTasks
And fill the stuff inside the metadata according to your model objects. I hope the code samples come online soon, because this is a lot of work :-(
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