Chapter 1, Getting Started with ASP.NET Core, teaches you about ASP.NET Core 1.0, including MVC and web API. This chapter will explain the differences between the full .NET Framework 4.6 and .NET Core, while introducing Visual Studio 2015 and the all-new cross-platform Visual Studio Code.

Chapter 2, Building Your First ASP.NET Core Application, shows you how to create a new ASP.NET Core web application. This chapter will dissect the parts of a modern ASP.NET web application, while explaining what's new and what's changed.

Chapter 3, Understanding MVC, teaches you all about ASP.NET Core MVC by going deeper into controllers, views, and models. This chapter will explain how to create all the parts of a modern MVC application and then bring it all together.

Chapter 4, Using Web API to Extend Your Application, is about using the web API to extend your web application to support web  and mobile applications. This chapter will explain how to create routes and configure a web API application and then consume it from a client application.

Chapter 5, Interacting with Web API using JavaScript, teaches you how to interact with the ASP.NET web API using straight JavaScript as well as popular frameworks such as AngularJS and KnockoutJS. This chapter will also cover developer tools, which automate important tasks and help during the development process.

Chapter 6, Using Entity Framework to Interact with Your Database in Code, teaches you how to use Entity Framework in the data layer of your web application. This chapter will introduce object-relational mapping (ORM) tools and the use of EF Code First Migrations .

Chapter 7, Dependency Injection and Unit Testing for Robust Web Apps, shows you how to implement dependency injection by using Inversion of Control . This chapter will cover DI, IoC containers, and Microsoft's new built-in support for dependency injection. The chapter will also cover the basics of unit testing.

Chapter 8, Authentication, Authorization, and Security, is about enabling authentication in ASP.NET web applications while implementing authorization for specific application features. The chapter will also cover guidelines for protecting user data and strategies to combat common security vulnerabilities in web applications.

Chapter 9, Deploying Your Application, covers how to deploy your applications to IIS on a web server or on Microsoft's Azure cloud platform. The chapter will also cover the use of continuous integration to run unit tests and deploy successfully compiled applications.

To learn ASP.NET Core and run the code examples for this book, the following software is recommended:

For more information on developing for and running ASP.NET Core on systems other than Windows, please consult the Running ASP.NET Core on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux  section in Chapter 1, Getting Started with ASP.NET Core. There, you will find a high-level overview of instructions for Mac and Linux, with links to online guides that are frequently updated.

This book is for software developers who have experience in .NET, preferably with C# or some other object-oriented programming language, which is required in order to build ASP.NET Core web applications. A basic understanding of web application development is also essential.

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "Uses the HTTP GET method with optional querystring parameters"

A block of code is set as follows:

app.UseMvc(routes =>
{
    routes.MapRoute(
        name: "default",
        template: "{controller=Home}/{action=Index}/{id?}");
});

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

dotnet restore
dotnet build
dotnet ef migrations add Initial
dotnet ef database update

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: "Enter some values and click the Create button."

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