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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

Getting started

Because views are essentially HTML, nothing prevents you from manually adding your markup to them, which can include values obtained from the controller either through the model, view bag, or temporary data. ASP.NET Core, however, like previous versions, has built-in methods to assist you in generating HTML that matches your model (structure and content) and displaying model validation errors and other useful model metadata.

Because all of this works on top of the model, for the framework to be able to extract any relevant information, we need to use strongly typed views, not dynamic views; this means adding eitheran @modelor@inheritsdirective to the views with the appropriate model type. To be clear, the model is the object that you pass to theViewResultobject returned from your controller, possibly returned from theViewmethod, and it must either match the declared@model directive in the view or its@inheritdeclaration.

Let's begin by looking...