Windows 8 Metro LOB App .NET 4.5 Category Features with Web API, Entity Framework Code First, Nuget, JSON.NET & Async -Await

Since the Asynchrony power of .NET 4.5 , it reveals the capability of building Windows 8 Metro LOB apps with ASP.NET Web API service , Entity Framework Code first support in backend. The Windows 8 Metro Enterprise app blocks keeps running with ASP.NET Web API , MVC 4, WCF Data Services , Azure Mobile Services keeping on backend as data provider model either in JSON or Atom/XML/RSS format.

The Asynchorony pattern on .NET 4.5 keeps the understanding of TPL (Task Parallel Library) with tremendous explore on APM model architecture pattern on C# Async -Await protocols. The HTTP client asynchorony pattern is greatly demandable with async-await styles for any standard clients (Windows 8 Metro Line-Of – Business Apps with POC , Windows Phone etc) implementations keeping Web Service with dataaccess on backend.

Lets have a look on a smart Metro Enterprise app built on ASP.NET MVC 4 Web API services connecting SQL data access with entity frameworks code first approach.

• The app covers the entire .NET Framework 4.5 features from Code Contracts to Task Parallel Library (TPL)

• The app has ASP.NET MVC 4 Web API support as data access strategy with Entity Framework & Code First approach.

Code snippet for FeatureDataSource.cs:

public  class FeatureDataSource

{

private static FeatureDataSource _sampleDataSource = newFeatureDataSource();

private ObservableCollection<FeatureDataItem> _items = newObservableCollection<FeatureDataItem>();

public ObservableCollection<FeatureDataItem> Items

{

get { returnthis._items; }

}

public FeatureDataSource()

{

this.Initialize();

}

public static IEnumerable<FeatureDataItem> Get()

{

return _sampleDataSource.Items;

}

public static FeatureDataItem Get(int id)

{

return _sampleDataSource.Items.FirstOrDefault(i => i.Id == id);

}

private async void Initialize()

{

using (var client = newWebBackendClient())

{

List<int> list = await client.Download<List<int>>(“/featuressummary”);

foreach (var i in list)

{

FeatureDataItem  feature = await client.Download<FeatureDataItem>(“/featuressummary/” + i);

_items.Add(feature);

}

}

}

}

}

• The Asynchronous Programming Model (APM) has in-built support for Async -Await patterns for non-blocking thread operations & execution of Tasks. The Task Parallel Library is supervized with Data Parallelism & Task Parallelism which is basic coding snippet for Windows Clients HTTP operations (HttpClient,SyndicationClient, Async-Await) from Web API REST or WCF Data Services or Atom/RSS feeds.

• More on Asynchronous Programming Model (APM) pattern for Windows Client (Windows 8 Metro Enterprise Apps, Windows Phone), Windows Azure , Windows Server can be here.

• The Task Parallel Library (TPL) for .NET Framework can be diversified with Data Parallelism, Task Parallelism , Parallel LINQ (PLINQ) support majorly. The Windows 8 Metro Enterprise app blocks is patternized with TPL & Asynchronous platform.

• The Parallel Computing is based on Asynchronous Pattern of Async-Await protocols on HTTPClients , similar way it provides support for web access , image , URL, Web Sockets, Diagnostics API support while it connects with raw WCF services too.

• The Architecture of Task Parallel Library :

• More on Task Parallel Library (TPL) for .NET Framework 4.5 support can be found here.

The Windows 8 Metro LOB app can be found in Windows Store Samples