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Learning ASP.NET Core 2.0

By : Michel Bruchet, Jason De Oliveira

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Learning ASP.NET Core 2.0

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By: Michel Bruchet, Jason De Oliveira

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Overview of this book

The ability to develop web applications that are highly efficient but also easy to maintain has become imperative to many businesses. ASP.NET Core 2.0 is an open source framework from Microsoft, which makes it easy to build cross-platform web applications that are modern and dynamic. This book will take you through all of the essential concepts in ASP.NET Core 2.0, so you can learn how to build powerful web applications. The book starts with a brief introduction to the ASP.NET Core framework and the improvements made in the latest release, ASP.NET Core 2.0. You will then build, test, and debug your first web application very quickly. Once you understand the basic structure of ASP.NET Core 2.0 web applications, you'll dive deeper into more complex concepts and scenarios. Moving on, we'll explain how to take advantage of widely used frameworks such as Model View Controller and Entity Framework Core 2 and you'll learn how to secure your applications. Finally, we'll show you how to deploy and monitor your applications using Azure, AWS, and Docker. After reading the book, you'll be able to develop efficient and robust web applications in ASP.NET Core 2.0 that have high levels of customer satisfaction and adoption.

Preface

Once upon a time, NGWS and the .NET Framework

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Free Chapter

What is ASP.NET Core 2.0?

ASP.NET Core 2.0 features

Cross-platform support

Microservice architecture

Working with Docker and containers

Performance and scalability

Side-by-side deployments

Technology restrictions

When to choose ASP.NET Core 2.0

Summary

Setting Up the Environment

Visual Studio 2017 as a development environment

How to install Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition

Visual Studio Code as a development environment

How to install Visual Studio Code on Linux

Summary

Creating a Continuous Integration Pipeline in VSTS

Continuous integration, continuous deployment, and build and release pipelines

Organizing your work via work items

Using Git as a version control system

Creating a VSTS build pipeline

Creating a VSTS release pipeline

Summary

Basic Concepts of ASP.NET Core 2.0 - Part 1

Building the Tic-Tac-Toe game

Targeting different .NET Framework versions in the .csproj files of your projects

Using the Microsoft.AspNetCore.All metapackage

Working with the Program class

Working with the Startup class

Giving your web pages a more modern look by using Bower and layout pages

Using dependency injection for encouraging loose coupling within your applications

Working with middlewares

Working with static files

Using routing, URL redirection, and URL rewriting

Adding error handling to your applications

Summary

Basic Concepts of ASP.NET Core 2.0 - Part 2

Client-side development using JavaScript

Optimizing your web applications and using bundling and minification

Working with WebSockets for real-time communication scenarios

Taking advantage of session and user cache management

Applying globalization and localization for multi-lingual user interfaces

Configuring your applications and services

Using logging

Implementing advanced dependency injection concepts

Building once and running on multiple environments

Summary

Creating MVC Applications

Understanding the Model View Controller pattern

Creating dedicated layouts for multiple devices

Using View Pages, Partial Views, View Components, and Tag Helpers

Dividing web applications into multiple Areas

Applying advanced concepts

Summary

Creating Web API Applications

Applying Web API concepts and best practices

Summary

Accessing Data using Entity Framework Core 2

Getting started with Entity Framework Core 2

Summary

Securing ASP.NET Core 2.0 Applications

Implementing authentication

Summary

Hosting and Deploying ASP.NET Core 2.0 Applications

Hosting applications

Deploying applications in Amazon Web Services

Deploying applications in Microsoft Azure

Deploying applications into Docker containers

Summary

Managing and Supervising ASP.NET Core 2.0 Applications

Logging in ASP.NET Core 2.0 applications

Monitoring ASP.NET Core 2.0 applications

Summary

Monitoring ASP.NET Core 2.0 applications

In the previous section, you saw how to generate and analyze application logs for your ASP.NET Core 2.0 web applications, which will help you better understand unexpected behavior and application bugs. This will help IT Operations after an event has occurred to trace the different steps until the root cause of a problem has been found.

However, it will not help them to constantly monitor and supervise applications, since using logging mechanisms for this case will result in bad performances and negative overall application impacts. Logging is not the right solution for continuous monitoring!

The goal of monitoring is to analyze and supervise a large number of application metrics in real time, and to automatically detect application anomalies. The metrics need to have a very low message footprint for this to work efficiently.

The most commonly...