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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

ASP.NET Core model conventions

ASP.NET Core has support for conventions, which are classes that implement well-known interfaces and can be registered to the application to modify certain aspects of it. The convention interfaces are as follows:

  • IApplicationModelConvention: This provides access to application-wide conventions, allowing you to iterate over each of the following levels—that is, the controller model, action model, and parameter model.
  • IControllerModelConvention: These are conventions that are specific to a controller, but also allow you to evaluate lower levels (the action model).
  • IActionModelConvention: This lets you make changes to action-level conventions, as well as to any parameters of the actions (the parameter model).
  • IParameterModelConvention: This is specific to parameters only.
  • IPageRouteModelConvention: This lets us customize the default routes to Razor Pages (ASP.NET Core 2.x).
  • ...