ASP.NET Core 5 for Beginners: Kick-start your ASP.NET web development journey with the help of step-by-step tutorials and examples

Cover
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Table of Contents
Preface
Section 1 – Crawling
Chapter 01: Introduction to ASP.NET Core 5
	Technical requirements
	Explaining ASP.NET Core
		Managed versus unmanaged code
		Introducing the .NET platform
		Supportability strategy
	Refreshing your C# knowledge
		What's new in .NET 5?
		What's new in C# 9?
	Understanding websites and web servers
		Web server configuration
		Certificate trust
		Session stickiness
		Troubleshooting communication with web servers
		Choosing a web server option
	Exploring Visual Studio Code
	Leveraging Windows Terminal
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 02: Cross-Platform Setup
	Technical requirements
	Leveraging the .NET framework
		Why cross-platform?
		Why not cross-platform?
		Combining cross-platform and single-platform code
		.NET cross-platform availability
		What cross-platform does not do for you
	Getting started on Windows, Linux, and macOS
		Windows
		Linux
		Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
		macOS
		A word on cross-platform and containers
		Making your code cross-platform
		A more complicated cross-platform example
		Self-contained .NET apps
		Cross-platform for mobile devices
	Debugging Linux on Windows with Visual Studio 2019
	Summary
	Questions
	Appendix
		Installing your app as a Windows service – the advanced method
Chapter 03: Dependency Injection
	Technical requirements
	Learning dependency injection in ASP.NET Core
		Understanding what DI is
		The common dependency problem
		Registering the service
		Benefits of DI
	Reviewing types of dependency injection
		Constructor injection
		Method injection
		Property injection
		View injection
	Understanding dependency injection containers
	Understanding dependency lifetimes
		Transient service
		Scoped service
		Singleton service
	Handling complex scenarios
		Service descriptors
		Add versus TryAdd
		Dealing with multiple service implementations
		Replacing and removing service registrations
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 04: Razor View Engine
	Technical requirements
	Understanding the Razor view engine
		Reviewing the Razor view engine
	Learning the basics of Razor syntax
		Rendering simple data
		Rendering data from a view model
		Introduction to HTML helpers and tag helpers
	Building a to-do application with MVC
		Understanding the MVC pattern
		Creating an MVC application
		Running the app for the first time
		Configuring in-memory databases
		Creating the to-do controller
		Creating a view
		Running the to-do app
		Implementing add item functionality
		Implementing edit functionality
	Building a to-do app with Razor Pages
		Reviewing Razor Pages
		Creating a Razor Pages application
		Understanding the Razor Pages structure
		Creating the to-do pages
	Differences between MVC and Razor Pages
	Summary
	Further reading
Chapter 05: Getting Started with Blazor
	Technical requirements
	Understanding the Blazor web framework
		Reviewing the different flavors of Blazor
	Five players, one goal
	Building a tourist spot application
	Creating the backend application
		Configuring an in-memory database
		Implementing real-time functionality with SignalR
		Creating the API endpoints
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Section 2 – Walking
Chapter 06: Exploring the Blazor Web Framework
	Creating the Blazor Server project
		Creating the model
		Implementing a service for web API communication
		Implementing the application state
		Creating Razor components
		Running the application
	Creating the Blazor Web Assembly project
		Creating the model
		Composing the Index component
		Running the application
		Uninstalling the PWA app
	Summary
	Further reading
Chapter 07: APIs and Data Access
	Technical requirements
	Understanding Entity Framework Core
		Reviewing EF Core design workflows
	Learning database-first development
		Creating a .NET Core console app
		Integrating Entity Framework Core
		Creating a database
		Generating models from an existing database
		Performing basic database operations
	Learning code-first development
		Reviewing ASP.NET Core Web API
		Creating a Web API project
		Configuring data access
		Managing database migrations
		Reviewing DTO classes
		Creating Web API endpoints
	Summary
	Further reading
Chapter 08: Working with Identity in ASP.NET
	Technical requirements
	Understanding authentication concepts
		Base64 encoding
		How hashing works
	Understanding authorization concepts
	The role of middleware in ASP.NET and identity
	OAuth and OpenID Connect basics
		JSON web tokens
		How to generate/issue a token
		How to validate a token
	Integrating with Azure Active Directory
		Understanding single tenancy versus multi-tenancy
		Understanding consent and permissions
	Working with federated identity
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 09: Getting Started with Containers
	Technical requirements
		Hardware virtualization
	Overview of containerization
	Getting started with Docker
		What is Docker?
		Installing Docker
		Windows Security Alert
	Running Redis on Docker
		Starting Redis
	Running ASP.NET Core in a container
		Accessing Redis
		Adding container support
		Docker multi-container support
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Section 3 – Running
Chapter 10: Deploying to AWS and Azure
	Technical requirements
		Working with AWS
		Working with Azure
		GitHub source code
	Overview of cloud computing
		Cloud computing models
		Cloud computing providers
	Creating a sample ASP.NET Core web application
		Adding a health endpoint
	Publishing to AWS
		Creating a user for publishing from Visual Studio
		Publishing from AWS
	Publishing to Azure
		Using the Publish wizard in Azure
		Azure next steps
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 11: Browser and Visual Studio Debugging
	Technical requirements
		Browser
		GitHub source
	Setting up the sample application
		Creating a progressive web application
		Saving the state of an application
		Understanding PWAs
		Accessing browser session and local storage
	Using debugging tools in the browser
		The Elements tab
		The Console tab
		The Sources tab
		The Network tab
		The Application tab
	Debugging in Visual Studio
		Controlling the application launch and target
		Logging activity
		Setting a breakpoint
		Using conditional breakpoints
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 12: Integrating with CI/CD
	Technical requirements
	An overview of CI/CD
		Understanding why CI/CD
	Introducing GitHub
		Is GitHub free?
		Some Git terminology
		Making a copy of the repo
		GitHub support for CI/CD
	Building CI/CD using GitHub Actions
		What is GitHub Pages?
		Creating a CI/CD workflow
		Creating a continuous integration job
		Creating a continuous deployment job
		Monitoring actions
		Configuring GitHub Pages
		Fixing the base reference
		Logging the CI/CD workflow
		Next steps with GitHub Actions
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Chapter 13: Developing Cloud-Native Apps
	Technical requirements
	What makes an application cloud-native?
		Comparing characteristics of on-premises versus the cloud
		Monolithic versus microservices architecture
		Planning for scalability
		Working with different database types
		Synchronicity and multi-processing tasks
		Avoiding failure versus expecting failure
		Understanding cloud update schedules
		Administration of servers and services
		Pets versus cattle
	Understanding the role of DevOps
	Understanding cost in the cloud
	Cloud storage versus local disk
		Ephemeral versus persistent storage
		Storing and reading files in Azure Blob storage
		Dealing with storage latency
	Introducing Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
		Imperative IaC
		Declarative IaC
	Learning about monitoring and health
	Summary
	Questions
	Further reading
Assessments
	Chapter 1 – Introduction to ASP.NET Core 5
	Chapter 2 – Cross-Platform Setup
	Chapter 3 – Dependency Injection
	Chapter 5 – Getting Started with Blazor
	Chapter 8 – Working with Identity in ASP.NET
	Chapter 9 – Getting Started with Containers
	Chapter 10 – Deploying to AWS and Azure
	Chapter 11 – Browser and Visual Studio Debugging
	Chapter 12 – Integrating with CI/CD
	Chapter 13 – Developing Cloud-Native Apps
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