Faster API Development in Visual Studio is Here! Say Hello to .http/.rest Files!

[@JamesMontemagno]

Combined with Dev Tunnels (kzbin.info/www/bejne/hIGtmaWcqdCkm8k) your API development is super charged! For more information on .http files checkout the blog: aka.ms/vs/httpfile and also the VS Code extension: github.com/Huachao/vscode-restclient

[@grumpydeveloper69]

What's missing in this version is what the VS Code plugin RestClient does support and that is using returnvalues from other calls. That is a very handy feature in returning tockens to a variable that you can use in subsequent calls. No more pasting security tokens to variables :-)

[@JamesMontemagno]

Oh that would be nice!

[@sayedha]

We are working to add support for those scenarios.

[@Goozales]

I use Postman a lot, but it looks like it will be very useful to me in some situations. Thank you for introducing :)

[@IRgEEK]

Same

[@queenstownswords]

Hey James. I see the value in this. However, we need to think of the 'hand-off' to the QA team and the transition from testing in dev to regression testing. Postman has a value point in that you can hand a collection from dev to QA. I could see a similar workflow where the .rest file is handed to QA to build automated tests from. What would be a great next step would be a way to wrap the .rest file in such a way that you can use xUnit (or a different test framework) to streamline the test automation development.

[@fayazvar3948]

You know we can do this in Postman, but if we have 30 APIs and use Postman for all those APIs to test, we many times lose our test data. I hate postman when there are 100's of tabs. This is a fantastic feature. I wish microsoft has done this 5 years back.

[@larsthomasdenstad9082]

Rider and VS Code has had this feature for a while. I prefer these to, say, Postman, because it is plain text and easy to version in Git. Also, Swagger is not great for testing an API, in my opinion, because it will actively try to disallow you to send invalid requests. They are actively doing something to make the interface worse. This looks like a good implementation of it. I hope this approach gets more traction.

[@JoshuaKersey]

wow and I thought the devtunnels was the best new feature. now i dunno which is better. wow. thanks for showing this! This feature seems to have been rather quiet, but this is amazing! thanks for putting the video together and doing an excellent and easy to understand demo of this.

[@LeonardHarrisLH]

Very cool James! The only thing im normally struggling with these days is keeping up with all these amazing tools!! 😅

[@JamesMontemagno]

Me too! Glad you enjoyed the video and I’ll be making more soon!

[@projectrebuilds2549]

Thanks James, this is an awesome feature. I will start using this to debug and test my API's.

[@khealer]

WebApplicationFactory can be used to achieve serious Api tests inside Visual Studio. This solution fits the straightforward stuff (actual quick testing) but if you need to simulate authentication and complex usage of the Api... WebApplicationFactory is the way to go.

[@bizmarinainfo1808]

What is WebApplicationFactory, can you please explain it? Thanks

[@khealer]

@@bizmarinainfo1808 Google it. Can't post links here.

[@rikudouensof]

This is great especially if you don't want to use postman or swagger.

[@James5976]

I like having the power of powershell for my REST testing. More than just variables...

[@elcurros]

Awesome, the same "logic" as the Visual Studio Code pluggin! :D

[@sayedha]

Yes, we took inspiration from that great plugin. We are working to add more support for the syntax that it supports.

[@indianapapi]

Pretty cool and easy way to quickly test API. I like it!

[@williambeckett4295]

This is amazing, thank you for sharing!

[@esmaelmohamed8209]

Cool! James you mean no need Postman?

[@kobibr9362]

These have been in IntelliJ for a long time. I thought I would use them, touched them the first day, got exited, forgot about them.

[@ronicard]

Wow. That is a gamechanger indeed.

[@euler-kb161]

Pretty cool feature but I think PowerShell is pretty much underestimated in terms of invoking rest api's with complex inputs and response handling as well as JSON/CSV extraction and manipulation

[@oliver-münzberg]

I know this feature for a long time ... from VS Code :o)

[@rdmon746]

Yep, same. REST client extension

[@caseyspaulding]

🙌🙌

[@Brendan2Alexander]

I am posting a beer to u as I type. Awesome James thank u!

[@sigma_z]

Can we get the bearer token from the JSON response and store it into a variable for subsequent requests?

[@sayedha]

We don't have that support today, but it is on the backlog.

[@sulmarpl]

Visual Studio is chasing Rider :) How can I set the host variable depending on the environment configuration (dev1, dev2) like in Rider? I'd like to avoid manual changes.

[@sayedha]

I'm working on a proposal to support env files, nothing to share yet, but it's on my radar! I want to include support for secrets in a secure fashion as well.

[@vldmatos]

awesome feature!!!

[@esmaelmohamed8209]

Which video is the Command line tool you was explained?

[@bakes82]

This has been in rider for a while also.

[@jd31068]

Pretty incredible.

[@anikdas7434]

Dyuam !!! Its so useful

[@AthelstanEngland]

Thank you.

[@JamesMontemagno]

You are very welcome

[@williameisenman5538]

Can you execute a Azure AD authorization followed by a Get (or other) query request?

[@JamesMontemagno]

It should do any get and you should be able to pass in auth headers and tokens as needed

[@clearlyunwell]

That is cool.

[@washaby2]

very cool

[@h.jpouya4715]

@3:45 as c# developer, shouldn't we say sharp sign?

[@dotnetdevni]

What is best practise for expected result its not good practise to save json file so what your recomend here.

[@DavidGold-w8s]

How does this work well with refresh/auth tokens?

[@ichilvers]

Why not use Postman for API testing and Robot Framework for web application testing. Both of which will work in CI/CD pipeline testing.

[@persiabudi1555]

pdf is very important on the printing process in any business but on Maui net there is no difference with xamarin, please help us how to print pdf

[@efexzium]

Nice 👍🏽 ❤

[@erpepl]

You are presenting a variable with @monkeyId which is pretty unnatural, but you have thought about extracting baseUrl...

[@JamesMontemagno]

Oh absolutely! I had thought about that as well. Just showing examples :)

[@adebisiolaoluwa2125]

How will you pass token in case of authorization and authentication

[@JamesMontemagno]

You can pass in the token in the header information. Similar to the json that I showed. The team is working on a bigger blog and docs on it as well. Checkout github.com/Huachao/vscode-restclient

[@1chullaman]

it is valid with JWT token?

[@sayedha]

You can add the header that is needed. We are working on some ways to support secrets in a secure fashion, but we don't have anything to share here yet.

[@amitkumdixit]

Don't see any added benefits. Postman thunderbird etc or for that matter Swagger is more convenient

[@MrHeulendoch]

I agree..

[@JamesMontemagno]

To me it is one less tool to install. Integrated into the IDE so nice on one screen. Also can check it into source control to easily share with team and community.

[@mihajlolukic4820]

Can someone help me, I would like to set one app icon and splash screen for Android and another for IOS because of the round Android icon the IOS one is too small and i had a lot of trouble just getting splash and icon to work, also video idea since I had so much trouble I'm guessing that I'm not the only one, make a whole video on how the svg icon and splash work in Maui, great content btw i just started learning api development so perfect timing James

[@JamesMontemagno]

Use conditional compilation in your csproj like the supported versioning does

[@ced888]

Not yet available for VS Mac 😢

[@phungn02]

Hey James, can you share the api project?

[@JamesMontemagno]

Whoops~! Thought I did! github.com/jamesmontemagno/MonkeyApi

[@138charlieB]

Is there a way to run pre-request scripts with this?

[@sayedha]

We are going to add a shortcut/context menu to re-run the last request.

[@christianmonoke8110]

Where is your beard😁😁 I guess a project was the reason for it and the stress is gone 😅😅

[@JamesMontemagno]

Gets too itchy at some point and I shave it :)

[@aktierportfolio1365]

I don't get the green play button in my visual studio.

[@JamesMontemagno]

In a recent update it is just above the api call to run it.

[@DreamsAPI]

Start the rave techno music only

[@jeffbarnard348]

OAuth?

[@LOrealHardly]

What about JWT tokens?

[@sayedha]

You can add the header that is needed. We are working on some ways to support secrets in a secure fashion, but we don't have anything to share here yet.

[@InsidiousDr9]

# = Octothorp

[@TaoriUTS]

soon VS is gonna be 50% of mads plugins. haha

[@dennycrane2938]

Not ampersands -- octothorps

[@eriknyk2k]

Not new dude, it was borrowed from Intellij IDEA, it exists many years ago on IDEA

[@mrmuzeza113]

no more postman😅

[@peterclaver9786]

Hey James can you buy me a pc

[@orhancanoguz4423]

Probably , there should be a "3rd party solutions" easier than this...

[@hendrykhoza4782]

VIM is better