ASP.NET Core Action, Third Edition

In you’ll learn how to: Fully updated to ASP.NET Core 7.0! In Microsoft MVP Andrew Lock teaches you how you can use your C# and .NET skills to build amazing cross-platform web applications. This revised bestseller reveals the latest .NET patterns, including minimal APIs and minimal hosting. Even if you've never worked with ASP.NET, you'll start creating productive cross-platform web apps fast. Illustrations and annotated code make learning visual and easy. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. The ASP.NET Core web framework delivers everything you need to build professional-quality web applications. With productivity-boosting libraries for server-side rendering, secure APIs, easy data access and more, you’ll spend your time implementing features instead of researching syntax and tracking down bugs. This book is your guide. shows you how to create production-grade web applications with ASP.NET Core 7.0. You’ll learn from hands-on examples, insightful illustrations, and nicely explained code. Updated coverage in this Third Edition includes creating minimal APIs, securing APIs with bearer tokens, WebApplicationBuilder, and more. For beginning to intermediate web developers. Examples are in C#. is a Microsoft MVP who has worked with ASP.NET Core since before its first release. 1 Getting started with ASP.NET Core PART 1 - GETTING STARTED WITH MINIMAL APIS 2 Understanding ASP.NET Core 3 Your first application 4 Handling requests with the middleware pipeline 5 Creating a JSON API with minimal APIs 6 Mapping URLs to endpoints using routing 7 Model binding and validation in minimal APIs PART 2 - BUILDING COMPLETE APPLICATIONS 8 An introduction to dependency injection 9 Registering services with dependency injection 10 Configuring an ASP.NET Core application 11 Documenting APIs with OpenAPI 12 Saving data with Entity Framework Core PART 3 - GENERATING HTML WITH RAZOR PAGES AND MVC 13 Creating a website with Razor Pages 14 Mapping URLs to Razor Pages using routing 15 Generating responses with page handlers in Razor Pages 16 Binding and validating requests with Razor Pages 17 Rendering HTML using Razor views 18 Building forms with Tag Helpers 19 Creating a website with MVC controllers 20 Creating an HTTP API using web API controllers 21 The MVC and Razor Pages filter pipeline 22 Creating custom MVC and Razor Page filters PART 4 - SECURING AND DEPLOYING YOUR APPLICATIONS 23 Authentication: Adding users to your application with Identity 24 Authorization: Securing your application 25 Authentication and authorization for APIs 26 Monitoring and troubleshooting errors with logging 27 Publishing and deploying your application 28 Adding HTTPS to an application 29 Improving your application’s security PART 5 - GOING FURTHER WITH ASP.NET CORE 30 Building ASP.NET Core apps with the generic host and Startup 31 Advanced configuration of ASP.NET Core 32 Building custom MVC and Razor Pages components 33 Calling remote APIs with IHttpClientFactory 34 Building background tasks and services 35 Testing applications with xUnit 36 Testing ASP.NET Core applications