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ASP.NET Core 5 for Beginners

By : Andreas Helland, Vincent Maverick Durano, Jeffrey Chilberto, Ed Price
Book Image

ASP.NET Core 5 for Beginners

By: Andreas Helland, Vincent Maverick Durano, Jeffrey Chilberto, Ed Price

Overview of this book

ASP.NET Core 5 for Beginners is a comprehensive introduction for those who are new to the framework. This condensed guide takes a practical and engaging approach to cover everything that you need to know to start using ASP.NET Core for building cloud-ready, modern web applications. The book starts with a brief introduction to the ASP.NET Core framework and highlights the new features in its latest release, ASP.NET Core 5. It then covers the improvements in cross-platform support, the view engines that will help you to understand web development, and the new frontend technologies available with Blazor for building interactive web UIs. As you advance, you’ll learn the fundamentals of the different frameworks and capabilities that ship with ASP.NET Core. You'll also get to grips with securing web apps with identity implementation, unit testing, and the latest in containers and cloud-native to deploy them to AWS and Microsoft Azure. Throughout the book, you’ll find clear and concise code samples that illustrate each concept along with the strategies and techniques that will help to develop scalable and robust web apps. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to leverage ASP.NET Core 5 to build and deploy dynamic websites and services in a variety of real-world scenarios.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Section 1 – Crawling
7
Section 2 – Walking
12
Section 3 – Running

Using debugging tools in the browser

We will use the application we wrote in the last section to explore major features of the browser's debugging tools. Fortunately, the major browsers have all taken a very similar approach to this, so a lot of what we will cover will be applicable to Edge, Chrome, Safari, and Firefox. For example, on a Windows machine, pressing F12 will access the browser tools in each browser.

Let's look at the tabs shown in the browser tools. We are going to have a look at Elements, Console, Sources, Network, and Application, as indicated in Figure 11.9:

Figure 11.9 – Developer tools tabs

In the following sections, we will look at the tabs indicated in more detail. For additional information, including information on the tabs we are not covering, please see the Further reading section at the end of the chapter.

The Elements tab

The Elements tab provides insights into the document object model (DOM) including CSS...