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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

Learning database-first development

In this section, we will build a .NET Core console application to explore the database-first approach and see how entity models are created from an existing database (reverse engineering).

Creating a .NET Core console app

To create a new .NET Core console app, follow these steps:

  1. Open Visual Studio 2019 and select Create a new project.
  2. Select the Console App (.NET Core) project template.
  3. Click Next. On the next screen, name the project EFCore_DatabaseFirst.
  4. Click Create to let Visual Studio generate the default files for you.

Now, we are going to add the required Entity Framework Core packages in our application for us to work with our existing database using the database-first approach.

Integrating Entity Framework Core

The Entity Framework Core feature was implemented as a separate NuGet package to allow developers to easily integrate features that the application needs.

As you may have already learned...