This is a chat application related to Telerik Academy Web Services Course (year 2014).

Project Description

Design and implement a RESTful API, host it in the cloud and develop a client application.

General Requirements

Please define and implement the following assets in your project:

Requirements for the RESTful API

• Use ASP.NET WebAPI

  o Your application must be implemented using ASP.NET WebAPI

• Provide a RESTful API

  o The endpoints should provide CRUD operations: POST, GET, PUT and DELETE

• Host the application in the cloud

  o Use AppHarbor

• Use a file storage cloud API

  o Dropbox, Google Drive or other

• Use a cloud database

o   MS SQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis or other

• Implement notifications functionality

o   Use PubNub or other 

Requirements for the Client application

• The client application can be one of the following:

o Web SPA application using JavaScript

o iOS mobile application

o Android mobile application

o Windows 8/Windows Phone 8 mobile application

o Cross-platform mobile application using Apache Cordova, Xamarin or other

o Windows desktop application using WPF, Windows Forms or the console

• The client application must send HTTP requests to the RESTful API

Additional Requirements

• Follow the best practices for OO design: use data encapsulation, use exception handling properly, use inheritance, abstraction and polymorphism properly and follow the principles of strong cohesion and loose coupling

• Create a solid validation on both the Web services application and on the client application

• Use a source control system by choice

Optional Requirements

If you have a chance, time and a suitable situation, you might add some of the following to your project:

• Usage of message queues

• Unit and/or integration testing