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ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 Cookbook

By : Jason De Oliveira, Engin Polat, Stephane Belkheraz
Book Image

ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 Cookbook

By: Jason De Oliveira, Engin Polat, Stephane Belkheraz

Overview of this book

The ASP.NET Core 2.0 Framework has been designed to meet all the needs of today’s web developers. It provides better control, support for test-driven development, and cleaner code. Moreover, it’s lightweight and allows you to run apps on Windows, OSX and Linux, making it the most popular web framework with modern day developers. This book takes a unique approach to web development, using real-world examples to guide you through problems with ASP.NET Core 2.0 web applications. It covers Visual Studio 2017- and ASP.NET Core 2.0-specifc changes and provides general MVC development recipes. It explores setting up .NET Core, Visual Studio 2017, Node.js modules, and NuGet. Next, it shows you how to work with Inversion of Control data pattern and caching. We explore everyday ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 patterns and go beyond it into troubleshooting. Finally, we lead you through migrating, hosting, and deploying your code. By the end of the book, you’ll not only have explored every aspect of ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0, you’ll also have a reference you can keep coming back to whenever you need to get the job done.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Accessing data with Windows Azure storage tables


In this recipe, we will use Windows Azure Table storage to retrieve data from a NoSQL database in Azure.

Getting ready

To communicate with Azure storage, we have to:

  • Install Azure SDK for .NET
  • Create an Azure Storage account
  • Install two NuGet packages: WindowsAzure.ConfigurationManager and WindowsAzure.Storage

After doing that, we will be able to use all the services in Azure storage: blobs, files, queues, and tables.

How to do it...

As in the previous recipe (Data access with MongoDb), we'll dive right into coding:

  1. First, we open Server Explorer in Visual Studio to consult the Azure services available for our Azure subscription:
  1. Next, let's install Azure SDK for .NET:
  1. Save and run this file:

This will open the Microsoft Platform Installer and download the Azure SDK for .NET:

Here are all the installed libraries and components with Azure SDK:

We can see a lot more items in the Azure menu.

  1. Now we will use our Azure subscription to create an Azure storage...