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Learning ASP.NET Core 2.0

By : Jason De Oliveira, Michel Bruchet
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Learning ASP.NET Core 2.0

By: Jason De Oliveira, Michel Bruchet

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.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Summary


In this chapter, you have learned how to build Web APIs for your applications for integration purposes and for loosely coupled application architectures.

We have explored different styles for your Web APIs, such as RPC, REST, and HATEOAS. Each of those styles has specific advantages and use cases. You have to choose carefully, depending on your specific application needs, since there is not one single style that outclasses the others.

You have seen examples of how to transform existing controller actions into RPC-style Web APIs and how to build REST-style and HATEOAS-style Web APIs from the ground up.

We have used Postman to manually test our Web APIs and you have acquired enough knowledge to apply all of these new concepts to your own environments.

In the next chapter, we will talk about how to access data by using Entity Framework Core 2 in your ASP.NET Core 2.0 applications.