Announcing ASP.NET WebHooks Release Candidate 1

Henrik F Nielsen

We are very excited to announce the availability of ASP.NET WebHooks Release Candidate 1. Thank you for all the positive feedback, suggestions, pull requests, and comments to date – they are essential to the process so keep them coming!

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p>WebHooks provide a simple mechanism for sending event notifications across web applications and external services. For example, you can subscribe to receive a WebHook when someone sends money to your PayPal account, or when a message is posted to Slack, or a picture is posted to Instagram – the opportunities are endless! When subscribing, you provide a callback URI where you want to be notified. When an event occurs in the service you subscribe to, a WebHook is sent to your callback URI with information about what happened so that your Web Application can process it accordingly. WebHooks happen without polling and with no need to hold open a network connection while waiting for event notifications.

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p>ASP.NET WebHooks provides support for receiving WebHooks from other parties as well as sending WebHooks so that you can notify other parties about changes in your service:

Currently ASP.NET WebHooks targets ASP.NET Web API 2 and ASP.NET MVC 5. It is available as Open Source on GitHub, and you can use it as preview packages from Nuget. For feedback, fixes, and suggestions, you can use GitHub, StackOverflow using the tag asp.net-webhooks, or send me a tweet.

We have a bunch of samples, blogs, and preliminary documentation. Below is a set of pointers that you may find helpful. If you are new to ASP.NET WebHooks, then check out the blog Introducing Microsoft ASP.NET WebHooks Preview.

Sending WebHooks

The following resources provide details about building support for sending WebHooks:

Receiving WebHooks

The following resources provide details about how to receive WebHooks:

Tooling

Thanks to Brady Gaster, we we have a Preview of a WebHooks Visual Studio Extension!

As always, let us know what you think and have fun!

Henrik

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