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Learning ASP.NET Core MVC Programming

By : Mugilan T. S. Ragupathi, Anuraj Parameswaran
Book Image

Learning ASP.NET Core MVC Programming

By: Mugilan T. S. Ragupathi, Anuraj Parameswaran

Overview of this book

ASP.NET Core MVC helps you build robust web applications using the Model-View-Controller design. This guide will help you in building applications which can be deployed on non-windows platforms such as Linux. In today’s age, it is crucial that you possess the ability to separate the programming and business logic, and this is exactly what ASP.NET Core MVC application will help you achieve. This version comes with a number of improvements that enable fast, TDD-friendly development to create sophisticated applications. You would also learn the fundamentals of Entity framework and on how to use the same in ASP.NET Core web applications. The book presents the fundamentals and philosophies of ASP.NET Core. Starting with an overview of the MVC pattern, we quickly dive into the aspects that you need to know to get started with ASP.NET. You will learn about the core architecture of model, view, and control. Integrating your application with Bootstrap, validating user input, interacting with databases, and deploying your application are some of the things that you will be able to execute with this fast-paced guide. The end of the book will test your knowledge as you build a fully working sample application using the skills you’ve learned throughout the book.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Learning ASP.NET Core MVC Programming
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
10
Building HTTP-based Web Services Using ASP.NET Web API

Chapter 10. Building HTTP-based Web Services Using ASP.NET Web API

So far, we have learned how to create web applications using ASP.NET Core. But there are times when simply creating a web application is not enough. Let's assume you are using ASP.NET Core to create a web application that provides weather information for all the cities across the world. People access your web application to find out weather information, and they are satisfied with the service. But this weather information may be needed by many other websites or web applications, such as tourism websites, news websites, and many other mobile applications.

Instead of writing the code all over again for their websites, you can create and publish the web services and the websites can consume the required web services whenever they need to.

In this chapter, you are going to learn about the following topics:

  • What an HTTP-based service is and how it is useful

  • What Fiddler is

  • How to compose an HTTP request using Fiddler and fire the same...