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ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 Cookbook

By : Jason De Oliveira, Engin Polat, Stephane Belkheraz
Book Image

ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 Cookbook

By: Jason De Oliveira, Engin Polat, Stephane Belkheraz

Overview of this book

The ASP.NET Core 2.0 Framework has been designed to meet all the needs of today’s web developers. It provides better control, support for test-driven development, and cleaner code. Moreover, it’s lightweight and allows you to run apps on Windows, OSX and Linux, making it the most popular web framework with modern day developers. This book takes a unique approach to web development, using real-world examples to guide you through problems with ASP.NET Core 2.0 web applications. It covers Visual Studio 2017- and ASP.NET Core 2.0-specifc changes and provides general MVC development recipes. It explores setting up .NET Core, Visual Studio 2017, Node.js modules, and NuGet. Next, it shows you how to work with Inversion of Control data pattern and caching. We explore everyday ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 patterns and go beyond it into troubleshooting. Finally, we lead you through migrating, hosting, and deploying your code. By the end of the book, you’ll not only have explored every aspect of ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0, you’ll also have a reference you can keep coming back to whenever you need to get the job done.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Migrating an HTTP handler to middleware


In this recipe, we will learn how to transform an ASP.NET HTTP handler to ASP.NET Core middleware.

Before anything, let's recap what an HTTP handler is. An HTTP handler handles an incoming request from the ASP.NET/IIS pipeline and generates a response for a given extension file (.aspx, .html, .jpg, and so on.) For ASP.NET MVC, we used a specific handler named MVCHandler, which ensures that an action method exists in a controller for the specified route in the request URL.

Getting ready

We create an empty ASP.NET Core web application with Visual Studio and .NET Core or .NET Framework.

How to do it...

We'll create a new project and write our first middleware. We can observe the execution mechanism of middleware with this project.

  1. First, let's watch the anatomy of an HTTP handler:
public class MyHttpHandler : IHttpHandler 
{ 
  public bool IsReusable {  get {  return false;   }  } 
 
  public void ProcessRequest(HttpContext context) 
  { 
    context.Response...