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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
Free Chapter
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

Enabling authentication in ASP.NET

You may be pleased to hear that ASP.NET Core includes built-in authentication methods in its web template. In fact, creating the sample projects mentioned in previous chapters will result in a functioning web application with authentication included. If you start a brand new project, this section will also help you identify what you need to do to include authentication.

High-level overview

Here is a high-level overview of how you can enable authentication in a new ASP.NET Core application using the web template:

  1. Create a new project with a web template.

  2. Select the authentication method.

  3. Verify the packages and references.

  4. Verify the code in the Startup.cs class.

  5. Add additional identity options as needed.

  6. Add external providers as needed.

If you want to start with an empty project, you can perform the following steps:

  1. Create a new empty web project.

  2. Do not select an authentication method.

  3. Add packages and references for authentication.

  4. Add code to the Startup.cs class...

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