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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

Understanding feature toggling

.NET Core 3 introduced the Microsoft.FeatureManagement.AspNetCore library, which is very handy for doing feature toggling. In a nutshell, a feature is either enabled or not, and this is configured through the configuration (any source) by a Boolean switch.

For more complex scenarios, you can define a configuration to be made available for a particular feature; this can be taken into consideration to determine whether or not it is enabled.

Feature toggling can be applied to an action method by applying the [FeatureGate] attribute with any number of feature names, as follows:

[FeatureGate("MyFeature1", "MyFeature2")]
public IActionResult FeactureEnabledAction() { ... }

When the[FeatureGate]attribute is applied to an action method and the feature is disabled, any attempts to access it will result in an HTTP 404 Not Found result. It can take any number of feature names and as well as an optional requirement...