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Learning ASP.NET Core 2.0

By : Jason De Oliveira, Michel Bruchet
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Learning ASP.NET Core 2.0

By: Jason De Oliveira, Michel Bruchet

Overview of this book

The ability to develop web applications that are highly efficient but also easy to maintain has become imperative to many businesses. ASP.NET Core 2.0 is an open source framework from Microsoft, which makes it easy to build cross-platform web applications that are modern and dynamic. This book will take you through all of the essential concepts in ASP.NET Core 2.0, so you can learn how to build powerful web applications. The book starts with a brief introduction to the ASP.NET Core framework and the improvements made in the latest release, ASP.NET Core 2.0. You will then build, test, and debug your first web application very quickly. Once you understand the basic structure of ASP.NET Core 2.0 web applications, you'll dive deeper into more complex concepts and scenarios. Moving on, we'll explain how to take advantage of widely used frameworks such as Model View Controller and Entity Framework Core 2 and you'll learn how to secure your applications. Finally, we'll show you how to deploy and monitor your applications using Azure, AWS, and Docker. After reading the book, you'll be able to develop efficient and robust web applications in ASP.NET Core 2.0 that have high levels of customer satisfaction and adoption.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Working with static files


When working with web applications, most of the time, you have to work with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and images, which are considered static files by ASP.NET Core 2.0.

Access to these files is not available by default, but you saw what needs to be done to allow static files to be used within your applications at the beginning of the chapter. In fact, you must add and configure the corresponding middleware in the Startup class to be able to serve static files:

    app.UseStaticFiles();

Note

Note that by default all static files served by this middleware are public and anyone can access them. If you need to protect some of your files, you need to either store them outside the wwwroot folder or you need to use the FileResult controller action, which supports the authorization middleware.

Furthermore, directory browsing is disabled by default for security reasons. You can, however, activate it easily if you need to allow users to see folders and files:

  1. Add the DirectoryBrowsingMiddleware...