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Mastering ASP.NET Web API

By : Mithun Pattankar
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Mastering ASP.NET Web API

By: Mithun Pattankar

Overview of this book

Microsoft has unified their main web development platforms. This unification will help develop web applications using various pieces of the ASP.NET platform that can be deployed on both Windows and LINUX. With ASP.NET Core (Web API), it will become easier than ever to build secure HTTP services that can be used from any client. Mastering ASP.NET Web API starts with the building blocks of the ASP.NET Core, then gradually moves on to implementing various HTTP routing strategies in the Web API. We then focus on the key components of building applications that employ the Web API, such as Kestrel, Middleware, Filters, Logging, Security, and Entity Framework.Readers will be introduced to take the TDD approach to write test cases along with the new Visual Studio 2017 live unit testing feature. They will also be introduced to integrate with the database using ORMs. Finally, we explore how the Web API can be consumed in a browser as well as by mobile applications by utilizing Angular 4, Ionic and ReactJS. By the end of this book, you will be able to apply best practices to develop complex Web API, consume them in frontend applications and deploy these applications to a modern hosting infrastructure.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Brief introduction to Object Relational Mapper

Integrating with the database deals with lots of groundwork to perform simple CRUD (create, read, update, and delete operations. Some of the ground work is connecting to the database, releasing the connection, pooling, querying the database, dealing with single or multiple records, connection resiliency, bulk update, and so on.

Writing up the code for this ground work is a huge task, often ending with lots of handwritten code, duplication of code, erroneous results, and maintenance issues.

Object Relational Mapper (ORM) offers a better way to integrate with the database in the form of class-object mapping to a relational database table.

ORM provides the necessary ground work as mentioned above and also uses object orient concepts to map class objects to a relational database table.

For example, the widely used learning database for...