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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

Deploying to AWS

AWS is the Amazon competitor to Microsoft Azure. It is a cloud provider that offers very similar features to Azure. Visual Studio can interact with it through the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio, available for free from here: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=AmazonWebServices.AWSToolkitforVisualStudio2017. You will, of course, need to have a working account with AWS.

We will see how we can deploy an ASP.NET Core app to AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon's easy-to-use hosting and scaling service for web apps:

  1. To deploy to Elastic Beanstalk, we must first create an environment using the AWS Elastic Beanstalk Console (https://console.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk).
  2. Then, we need to ZIP all our apps' contents, minus any third-party NuGet packages or binary outputs, and upload them to AWS. Luckily, AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio does all of this for us! Just right-click on the project in Solution Explorer...