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.NET Core 2.0 By Example

By : Neha Shrivastava, Rishabh Verma
Book Image

.NET Core 2.0 By Example

By: Neha Shrivastava, Rishabh Verma

Overview of this book

With the rise in the number of tools and technologies available today, developers and architects are always exploring ways to create better and smarter solutions. Before, the differences between target platforms was a major roadblock, but that's not the case now. .NET Core 2.0 By Example will take you on an exciting journey to building better software. This book provides fresh and relevant content to .NET Core 2.0 in a succinct format that’s enjoyable to read. It also delivers concepts, along with the implications, design decisions, and potential pitfalls you might face when targeting Linux and Windows systems, in a logical and simple way. With the .NET framework at its center, the book comprises of five varied projects: a multiplayer Tic-tac-toe game; a real-time chat application, Let'sChat; a chatbot; a microservice-based buying-selling application; and a movie booking application. You will start each chapter with a high-level overview of the content, followed by the above example applications described in detail. By the end of each chapter, you will not only be proficient with the concepts, but you’ll also have created a tangible component in the application. By the end of the book, you will have built five solid projects using all the tools and support provided by the .NET Core 2.0 framework.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 7. To the Cloud

So far we have learned and explored the fundamentals of ASP.NET Core 2.0 by developing applications that ran locally in our machines. The real value of these apps can be realized only when these apps are deployed and available on the internet, so that they can be accessed from virtually anywhere and everywhere on the planet. To do so, we need to learn to deploy our ASP.NET Core 2.0 apps in the cloud, Microsoft Azure. An obvious question that comes to mind is Why should I care about the cloud? In this chapter, we will answer this question and get introduced to Microsoft Azure, our cloud platform, and learn its basics. So far, we deliberately developed applications that did not do any data persistence and hence did not use a relational database. We will also learn to develop an end-to-end application that uses a relational database for data persistence and learn about Entity Framework Core in the process. We will grasp these concepts by developing a simple movie booking...