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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>

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ASP.NET Core Essentials
Shahed Chowdhuri
Sep, 2016 | 220 pages
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Table of Contents (15 chapters)
ASP.NET Core Essentials
ASP.NET Core Essentials
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewer
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
Getting Started with ASP.NET Core
Getting Started with ASP.NET Core
ASP.NET Core - Unifying MVC, Web API, and Web Pages
Differences between .NET Framework and .NET Core
What's new with Visual Studio 2015 and Visual Studio Code?
Running ASP.NET Core on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux
Summary
2
Building Your First ASP.NET Core Application
Building Your First ASP.NET Core Application
Project templates in Visual Studio 2015
Hello, ASP.NET - your first ASP.NET application
Models, views, and controllers - an MVC refresher
Web configuration with project.json
Summary
3
Understanding MVC
Understanding MVC
Building controllers
Implementing views
Designing models and ViewModels
Bringing it all together
Summary
4
Using Web APIs to Extend Your Application
Using Web APIs to Extend Your Application
Understanding a Web API
Configuring the Web API in your web application
Adding routes to handle anticipated URL paths
Consuming a Web API from a client application
Summary
5
Interacting with Web API using JavaScript
Interacting with Web API using JavaScript
Using JavaScript to interact with Web API
Single-page applications with AngularJS
Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) with KnockoutJS
Task runners, bundling, and minification using Bower, Grunt, and Gulp
Summary
6
Using Entity Framework to Interact with Your Database in Code
Using Entity Framework to Interact with Your Database in Code
Object-relational mapping in .NET
EF 6.x for .NET Framework versus EF Core 1.0
Code First approach to database design and relationships
EF Code First migrations for database versioning and maintenance
Summary
7
Dependency Injection and Unit Testing for Robust Web Apps
Dependency Injection and Unit Testing for Robust Web Apps
Understanding IoC
Implementing DI in ASP.NET Core
DI options in ASP.NET Core
Writing unit tests
Summary
8
Authentication, Authorization, and Security
Authentication, Authorization, and Security
Enabling authentication in ASP.NET
Using authorization for application features
Protecting your data
Implementing web application security
Summary
9
Deploying Your Application
Deploying Your Application
Deployment options
Deploying to IIS
Deploying to Azure, Microsoft's cloud platform
Continuous integration
Summary

Writing unit tests

In addition to DI, it is also important to write unit tests to build robust software. By automating your tests, you can minimize the chances of bugs in your code and generate confidence when adding new features.

Many articles and a few books have been written on unit testing, so this section is by no means a comprehensive reference on it. Instead, its intent is to introduce you to the possibilities of automated testing in your code.

Setting up a test project

ASP.NET developers have been using various unit testing frameworks over the years. The list of testing frameworks includes nUnit, xUnit.net, and Microsoft's own MSTest. All of these products have the same basic capabilities and some advanced capabilities as well. To extend the functionality, developers can use mocking frameworks such as Moq (pronounced Mock-You or Mock).

Since the introduction of ASP.NET Core through various Beta versions, xUnit.net has been made available and is ready for use. Although MSTest was not...

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