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Modern Web Development with ASP.NET Core 3 - Second Edition

By : Ricardo Peres
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Modern Web Development with ASP.NET Core 3 - Second Edition

By: Ricardo Peres

Overview of this book

ASP.NET has been the preferred choice of web developers for a long time. With ASP.NET Core 3, Microsoft has made internal changes to the framework along with introducing new additions that will change the way you approach web development. This second edition has been thoroughly updated to help you make the most of the latest features in the framework, right from gRPC and conventions to Blazor, which has a new chapter dedicated to it. You’ll begin with an overview of the essential topics, exploring the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern, various platforms, dependencies, and frameworks. Next, you’ll learn how to set up and configure the MVC environment, before delving into advanced routing options. As you advance, you’ll get to grips with controllers and actions to process requests, and later understand how to create HTML inputs for models. Moving on, you'll discover the essential aspects of syntax and processes when working with Razor. You'll also get up to speed with client-side development and explore the testing, logging, scalability, and security aspects of ASP.NET Core. Finally, you'll learn how to deploy ASP.NET Core to several environments, such as Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Docker. By the end of the book, you’ll be well versed in development in ASP.NET Core and will have a deep understanding of how to interact with the framework and work cross-platform.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
1
Section 1: The Fundamentals of ASP.NET Core 3
7
Section 2: Improving Productivity
14
Section 3: Advanced Topics
Appendix A: The dotnet Tool

Returning validation results

Before ASP.NET 2.1, you would need to explicitly look at the model validation result—for example, by inspecting ModelState.IsValid—and act accordingly, returning, for example, BadRequestResult. Since then, for any controllers that feature the [ApiController] attribute, ASP.NET Core will add an action filter called ModelStateInvalidFilter, which, before an action method is actually run, inspects the model for validity and returns BadRequestResult for us. The pseudocode looks as follows:

public void OnActionExecuting(ActionExecutingContext context)
{
if (!context.ModelState.IsValid)
{
context.Result = new BadRequestObjectResult(context.ModelState);
}
}

The response sent to the client includes the model validation errors and, by default, a special content type of application/problem+json. We will discuss this in greater detail when we talk about error handling later in this chapter.

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