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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)
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Section 1 – Crawling
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Section 2 – Walking
12
Section 3 – Running

Chapter 4: Razor View Engine

Building dynamic and data-driven web applications is pretty easy; however, things can sometimes be confusing, especially if you are new to the technology. As a beginner, you might find yourself having a hard time understanding how the stateless nature of the web works. The main reason for this is either you have never been exposed to how to apply the framework or simply because you are completely new to web development and you have no idea where to begin.

Even though there are many tutorials that you can use as a reference to learn, you may still find it hard to connect pieces, which could result in you losing interest. The good news is that ASP.NET Core makes things easier for you to learn how to carry out web development. As long as you understand C#, basic HTML, and CSS, you should be able to learn web development in no time. If you are new, confused, and have no idea how to start building an ASP.NET Core application, then this chapter is for you...