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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

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

Code in text: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "The preceding code renders the App.razor component with ServerPrerendered as the default rendering mode."

A block of code is set as follows:

<body>

<app>

<component type="typeof(App)" render-mode="ServerPrerendered" />

</app>

@*Removed other code for brevity*@

</body>

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

<script src="_framework/blazor.webassembly.js"></script>

<script src="storageHandling.js"></script>

</body>)

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

dotnet run

Base64 encoded: YW5kcmVhczpwYXNzd29yZA==

Response: Hello Andreas

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see on screen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "Select the ASP.NET Core Web Application template and click on Next."

Tips or important notes

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