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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

Technical requirements

This chapter uses Visual Studio 2019 to demonstrate various examples, but the process should be the same if you're using Visual Studio Code.

Check out the source code for this chapter at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/ASP.NET-Core-5-for-Beginners/tree/master/Chapter%2004/Chapter_04_RazorViewEngine_Examples.

Before diving into this chapter, make sure that you have a basic understanding of ASP.NET Core and C# in general and how each of them works separately, as well as together. Though it's not required, having a basic knowledge of HTML and CSS is helpful for you to easily understand how the pages are constructed.

Please visit the following link to check the CiA videos: https://bit.ly/3qDiqYY

If you're ready, let's jump right into it.