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ASP.NET Core Essentials

By : Shahed Chowdhuri
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ASP.NET Core Essentials

By: Shahed Chowdhuri

Overview of this book

<p>ASP.NET Core is the latest collection of Microsoft’s web application development technologies. When you’re trying to reach a broad spectrum of users with a robust web application, ASP.NET Core is there to help you build that application. With the ability to cater to users on desktop, tablet, or smartphone platforms, you can put together a solution that works well anywhere.</p> <p>This book is what you need to get started developing ASP.NET Core applications was quickly as possible; starting by introducing the software and how it can be used in today’s modern world of web applications and smartphone apps. Walking you through the benefits of a Web API to support both applications and mobile apps to give you a solid understanding of the tech to build upon as you see what ASP.NET Core can do for you.</p> <p>The book wraps up with practical guidelines for the use of database technologies, unit tests, security best practices, and cloud deployments for the real world.</p>
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
ASP.NET Core Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Configuring the Web API in your web application


How does the web server know what to send to the browser when a specific URL is requested? The answer lies in the configuration of your Web API project.

Setting up dependencies

In this section, we will learn how to set up your dependencies automatically using the IDE, or manually by editing your project's configuration file:

  1. To pull in the necessary dependencies, you may right-click on the using statement for Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc and select Quick Actions and Refactorings.... This can also be triggered by pressing Ctrl + . (period) on your keyboard or simply by hovering over the underlined term, as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. Visual Studio should offer you several possible options, from which you can select the one that adds the package Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Core for the namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc. For the Controller class, add a reference for the Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures package, as shown in the following screenshot...