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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

Summary

This chapter began with Common Logging, which is a must-have in .NET Core. The infrastructure, although limited, does not support structured logging out of the box—for example, it is built-in, pluggable, and DI-friendly. Use it for the most Common Logging uses. Please explore all the logging providers available to see whether there is one that meets your requirements. Special hosting providers, such as Azure or AWS, offer their own packages, which you should leverage for the best results.

Next, we saw that diagnostic tracing offers the advantage that you can call methods with discrete parameters, which is an advantage as it can lead to more meaningful logs. You can use it to see exactly what middleware is being executed and how much time each step takes.

The other options shown, adding middleware or action filters, are also probably worth exploring, especially action filters.

Then, we saw that telemetry is essential for enterprise applications...