ASP.NET Core

288 Pages·2016·7.98 MB·English

by  Shahed Chowdhuri

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Table of Contents
ASP.NET Core Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the example code
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Getting Started with ASP.NET Core
ASP.NET Core - Unifying MVC, Web API, and Web Pages
High-level overview
Version numbers
Putting it all together
Differences between .NET Framework and .NET Core
Full .NET Framework 4.6
Lightweight .NET Core
Running ASP.NET Core on .NET Framework versus .NET Core
What's new with Visual Studio 2015 and Visual Studio Code?
Community Edition
Professional and Enterprise Editions
Visual Studio Code
Running ASP.NET Core on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux
ASP.NET Core on Windows
ASP.NET Core on Mac OS X
ASP.NET Core on Linux
Summary
2. Building Your First ASP.NET Core Application
Project templates in Visual Studio 2015
Empty template
Web API template
Web Application template
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Hello, ASP.NET - your first ASP.NET application
Writing a response
Launching the application
Web files and folders
Models, views, and controllers - an MVC refresher
Controllers
Models
Views
Web configuration with project.json
Dependencies and frameworks
Commands and tools
Bundling and publishing
Summary
3. Understanding MVC
Building controllers
Controller methods
Basic controllers
URL routes and conventions
Implementing views
Basic views
Tag helpers in views
ViewData, ViewBag, and TempData
Designing models and ViewModels
Creating models
Binding models to views
ViewModels and mapping
Bringing it all together
Scaffolding, validation, and model binding
Database setup and data entry
Exception handling
Summary
4. Using Web APIs to Extend Your Application
Understanding a Web API
The case for Web APIs
Creating a new Web API project from scratch
Building your Web API project
Configuring the Web API in your web application
Setting up dependencies
Parts of a Web API project
Running the Web API project
Adding routes to handle anticipated URL paths
Understanding routes
Setting up routes
Testing routes
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Consuming a Web API from a client application
Testing with external tools
Consuming a Web API from a mobile app
Consuming a Web API from a web client
Summary
5. Interacting with Web API using JavaScript
Using JavaScript to interact with Web API
Preparing the server-side code
Client-side JavaScript
JavaScript frameworks
Single-page applications with AngularJS
Getting started with AngularJS
AngularJS syntax and features
Building a web application with AngularJS
Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) with KnockoutJS
Getting started with KnockoutJS
KnockoutJS syntax and features
Building a web application with KnockoutJS
Task runners, bundling, and minification using Bower, Grunt, and Gulp
Why do we need task automation?
Using Bower as your package manager
Using Gulp and Grunt as task runners
Summary
6. Using Entity Framework to Interact with Your Database in Code
Object-relational mapping in .NET
Why use an ORM?
Why Entity Framework?
The evolution of Entity Framework
EF 6.x for .NET Framework versus EF Core 1.0
What's different in EF Core
Getting started with EF Core
What else is new?
Code First approach to database design and relationships
Updating the models
Updating the controllers
Updating the views
EF Code First migrations for database versioning and maintenance
Setting up migrations
Adding and removing migrations
Running your application
Summary
7. Dependency Injection and Unit Testing for Robust Web Apps
Understanding IoC
Pros and cons of DI
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SOLID principles and Gang of Four patterns
Loose coupling
Implementing DI in ASP.NET Core
Lifecycle management
Constructor injection versus action injection
Verifying the expected behavior
DI options in ASP.NET Core
Built-in IoC
Autofac
Other alternatives
Writing unit tests
Setting up a test project
Running unit tests
Going beyond the basics
Summary
8. Authentication, Authorization, and Security
Enabling authentication in ASP.NET
High-level overview
Authentication configuration
External service providers
Using authorization for application features
High-level overview
Basic authorization
Roles and claims
Protecting your data
Data protection in ASP.NET Core
Implementing data protection
How it all works
Implementing web application security
Cross-site scripting
Anti-forgery
Cross-origin requests
Summary
9. Deploying Your Application
Deployment options
Environment configuration
Deploying your web app
Deploying your database
Deploying to IIS
Setting up IIS
Using the filesystem
Importing a publish profile
Deploying to Azure, Microsoft's cloud platform
Creating a web app
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Creating a virtual machine
Deploying to Azure
Continuous integration
Preparing for CI
Setting up Continuous Deployment
The pitfalls of CI
Summary
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