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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

Reducing the number of HTTP requests


A typical web page might not have only HTML content. It may have references to CSS files, JS files, and images, or other sources. So, when you try to access a web page, the client will fire HTTP requests for each of these references and download those references from the server to the client.

Browser developer tools come in handy when you want to analyze the HTTP requests being fired from the client. Most of the browsers have developer tools that you can make use of.

When you press F12 in Internet Explorer, the Developer Tools window will open at the bottom of the Internet Explorer window, as shown in the following screenshot:

Click on the Network tab. Before entering the URL in the browser, click the Start button (the green play button), or click the green play button and refresh the page:

Once you press the Network tab's start button, Internet Explorer's Network tab will listen to each of the requests that are fired from the current tab. Each request...