ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 Cookbook

ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 Cookbook

By : Jason De Oliveira, Engin Polat, Stephane Belkheraz

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ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 Cookbook

By: Jason De Oliveira, Engin Polat, Stephane Belkheraz

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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.

Title Page

Packt Upsell

Contributors

Preface

Free Chapter

Cross-Platform with .NET Core

What is ASP.NET Core 2.0?

What's new in ASP.NET and CLR?

Installing or updating .NET Core

Managing NuGet packages in ASP.NET Core applications

Creating an ASP.NET Core MVC application on Linux

Creating an ASP.NET Core MVC application on Linux with Docker

Creating an ASP.NET Core MVC application on macOS

Creating and running an ASP.NET Core MVC application on Azure

Visual Studio 2017, C# 6, IDEs, and Roslyn

Introduction

Working with Visual Studio 2017

Working with Visual Studio Code

Installing and using OmniSharp on macOS

Installing and using OmniSharp on Linux

Working with Roslyn

Using C# 6 new features

Working with npm, Frontend Package Managers, and Task Runners

Introduction

Using and creating npm modules

Managing frontend dependencies with Bower

Compiling LESS files to CSS files with Grunt

Bundling and minifying JavaScript files with Gulp

Using Yeoman code-generated templates

Using JSPM

Reusing Code with NuGet

Introduction

Managing NuGet packages

Creating a NuGet package with the NuGet package class library

Creating a local NuGet repository and consuming packages from it

Creating a NuGet package with NuGet Package Explorer

Sharing NuGet packages with the community

Creating an Azure NuGet repository

SOLID Principles, Inversion of Control, and Dependency Injection

Introduction

Implementing DI with Native IOC in ASP.NET Core

Using the life cycles available in ASP.NET Core

Implementing DI with Autofac

Implementing DI with StructureMap

Implementing DI with DryIoc

Data Access - EF7 with Repository, SQL Server, and Stored Procedures

Introduction

Configuring the IOC life cycle for the repository pattern

Using EF with an existing database

Using an InMemory provider

Managing a long request batch

Using a stored procedure with EF

Writing an EF provider

Accessing data with Micro ORMs, NoSQL, and Azure

Introduction

Accessing data with Dapper

Accessing data with OrmLite

Accessing data with MongoDb

Accessing data with Windows Azure storage tables

Accessing data with Azure storage Blobs

Accessing data with SQL Azure

Cache and Session - Distributed, Server, and Client

Introduction

Using .NET Cache with MemoryCache

Caching HTML with Cache TagHelpers

Using ResponseCache attribute

Using Session

Using Redis as Cache on-Premises

Using Redis as a cache on Azure

Caching with HTML5 cache manifest

Caching with HTML5 localStorage and sessionStorage

Routing

Before ASP.NET Core

Since ASP.NET Core

MVC and Web API routing

The route order

Routing with ASP.NET Core

Creating a route using convention routing

Creating a route using attribute routing

Creating a custom route using IRouter

Creating a route constraint

Creating a domain route

Creating SEO-friendly routes

ASP.NET Core MVC

Injecting dependencies and configuring IoC for a controller

Using ActionResults

Creating and working with areas

Creating and using POCO controllers

Creating and using controllers with MediatR

Managing exceptions

Web API

Using ActionResult

Configuring content negotiation

Configuring cross-domain origin requests

Filters

Managing authentication and authorization with policies, requirements, and filters

Managing dependency injection with filters

Creating and using an action filter

Creating and using a result filter

Creating and using a resource filter

Creating and using an exception filter

Using a filter globally versus using a middleware

Views, Models, and ViewModels

Creating and using a ViewModel with AutoMapper

Understanding and using ModelBinding

Creating our own model binder

Understanding and using a value provider

Configuring and using validation

Razor and Views

Managing namespaces in views with ViewImports

Creating a strongly typed Partial view

Configuring view and area locations

Using dependency injection in views

Creating HTMLHelpers

TagHelpers and ViewComponents

Using Environment, Script, and Link TagHelpers

Using Form TagHelpers

Creating TagHelpers programmatically

Creating a reusable view component

Creating a view component/controller class

OWIN and Middleware

Understanding OWIN, Katana, and the new ASP.NET Core HTTP pipeline

Using inline middleware code as anonymous methods - Use, Run, Map, and MapWhen

Creating a reusable middleware component

Migrating an HTTP handler to middleware

Migrating HTTP modules to middleware

Security

Introduction

Authentication in ASP.NET, using cookie authentication

Authentication using authorization servers

Managing identity

Securing data with Hashing

Securing data with Encryption

Frontend Development

Using Bootstrap

Writing clean JavaScript

RequireJS

Typescript

Writing and executing unit tests in JavaScript

Debugging JavaScript code in browsers

Deployment and Hosting

Deployment options

Hosting an ASP.NET Core web app on IIS

Hosting an ASP.NET Core web application on Kestrel

Hosting an ASP.NET Core web app on Azure

Hosting an ASP.NET Core web app in Docker containers

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Creating an ASP.NET Core MVC application on Linux

In this recipe, we will create an ASP.NET Core MVC application on Linux. In order to perform this feature, we will have to install all the necessary libraries, components, and IDE on Ubuntu.

Getting ready

For cost consideration, we may be interested in hosting our websites on a Linux infrastructure. With cloud possibilities, we can consider hosting a Linux VM with ASP.NET Core capabilities.

For this recipe, we will use Ubuntu 17.10, but you can use a different Linux distribution such as Debian, CentOS, Fedora or any Linux distribution that supports a Docker Engine.

Before .NET Core, there was the Mono Framework (http://www.mono-project.com/) to run a .NET application on Linux. Mono is an open source and a cross-platform port of the .NET Framework, which contains an Apache module to host ASP.NET applications.

For now, .NET applications always need Mono to run on Linux or OS X, because not all the BCL (The .NET Framework base class library) is fully ported on Linux.

To host our ASP.NET Core 2.0 application on Linux, we will use Kestrel (you can read more about this at https://github.com/aspnet/KestrelHttpServer) as a WebServer, which is a lightweight cross-platform web server able to execute ASP.NET Core code. Kestrel uses Libuv internally as a multi-platform asynchronous IO and TCP library, also used by Node.js.

For the moment, there's no other web server we could use to host ASP.NET Core applications on Linux or macOS, and Kestrel is not production-ready. We can also use IIS or WebListener as a web server to host ASP.NET Core applications, but exclusively on Windows.

How to do it...

After installing .NET Core on Linux, creating a new project is easy.

Let's start creating a new project:

Run dotnet new mvc from the command line. This command will create a new ASP.NET Core MVC project with the same name as the containing folder. If we want to give a different name to the project, -n PROJECTNAME switch should be added

Next, we need to run dotnet restore in the project folder. Most IDEs run dotnet restore in the background for us, such as Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code

How it works...

The dotnet CLI will generate all the necessary files you need for the project template we select.

The dotnet run command will be used to launch the ASP.NET Core MVC project:

ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 Cookbook

By : Jason De Oliveira, Engin Polat, Stephane Belkheraz

ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 Cookbook

By: Jason De Oliveira, Engin Polat, Stephane Belkheraz

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