Using Microsoft Translator With ASP.NET MVC 4 Web API

This article explains how to use the Microsoft Translator API to translate text that was input by the user. Microsoft Translation Service is an online service which has support for AJAX, HTTP or SOAP and Basic subscriptions, up to 2 million characters a month, are free. Google’s free Translation API are deprecated So Microsoft Translator is a good alternative. In this sample, we will use AJAX API for English to Hindi translation.

HTTP PATCH Requests (Partial Updates) in ASP.NET Web API and EF DB First

To update an entity in ASP.NET Web API, PUT request is used and we have to send all the properties even if only a subset have changed means if only one field is updated on the client side, we have to send the entire model back to the server to make an update. It’s not a cool way. PATCH request allows you to send just the modified properties for partial model updates. It reduces complexity in case of bigger tables. Here is a usage example to implement HTTP Patch request in ASP.NET Web API to update data with EF DB First.