Getting Started With Microsoft ASP.NET WebHook

More Real time examples of WebHooks

Think a scenario of a factory, which uses crude oil as a raw material. There is a huge consumption of this oil in the factory on daily basis. They have three mark to maintain the oil storage/stock level in the factory.


Figure 2: Example of Webhooks

• Red for lowest stock and denotes stop usage.
• Yellow for in stock and denotes can use.
• Green for lower stock and denotes order to purchase more.

Think a scenario, where factory workers/store-keepers or field-supervisors are maintaining numerous records for the stock of this oil. You can think how much complex it would be in real scenario.

What is the problem here

In normal scenario, where the consumption of this crude oil is not much and can easily be maintained by manual interventions/activities. Unfortunately, in our case it is not simpler to take a bite of bread with tea.

Here, we need skilled workers to maintain records and set the indicators accordingly, so related action can be taken. Think, how much time, cost and manpower would be required in this scenario. Isn't it good to automate it?

What is the solution

There might be many solutions we can think over, but here are some of the possible solutions:

• Automate this process.
• Write a short program/app to maintain the difference in stock level.
• Automate process, so related person get notified for action(s).

In all of the above solutions, we need to trigger some action on the output of a particular action or talk. Isn't it related to WebHook?

In my personal opinion, I would suggest to do something like the following:

• Write a program/app, which maintain the stock time-to-time (on/when action required).
• And notify the Panel-section to alarm Red, Yellow or Green indicators.

With this solution as soon as there is any addition/subtraction in the quantity of crude-oil our program notify our Stock-Panel (which is nothing but similar to Traffic control light) and it trigers accordingly.

What is pub/sub model

This is nothing but a publish-subscribe pattern/model - a messaging pattern. We can assume this as a message-queue paradigm too. We are not getting in more depth for pub/sub model, please refer to the following link for further details.

• Publish–subscribe pattern

Applications/Projects provide WebHook

Term WebHook is not new (already discussed above it is coined in 2007) in the world of Web. There are lots of applications already provided, that support WebHook. Here are some names:

• Dropbox
• GitHub
• Trello
• Zendesk
• PayPal
• SalesForce
• Wordpress

Overview of ASP.NET WebHook Preview

There is nothing much changed in Microsoft ASP.NET WebHook Preview, it maintains the same publish-subscribe model/pattern as we discussed above.

In other words, we can say that ASP.NET WebHook does both send and receive Hook as/within ASP.NET application/program. It has the following two sides:

• Sending
• Receiving

Refer: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2015/09/04/introducing-microsoft-asp-net-webhooks-preview.aspx

How to start working with ASP.NET WebHook Preview

Here are the step(s)

• Choose your package app which you want to use WebHooks viz. Github, Trello, DropBox etc.
• Install from Preview Nuget eg. GitHub.
• Alternatively, you can visit GitHub.

Notes for Editors

This article starts with preview of Microsoft ASP.NET WebHook and needs update time-to-time. It would contain reference links for further discussions or clarifications. This is an ongoing article and needs lot of upcoming updates (I am expecting to cover this within 100+ pages).