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An Atypical ASP.NET Core 5 Design Patterns Guide

By : Carl-Hugo Marcotte
Book Image

An Atypical ASP.NET Core 5 Design Patterns Guide

By: Carl-Hugo Marcotte

Overview of this book

Design patterns are a set of solutions to many of the common problems occurring in software development. Knowledge of these design patterns helps developers and professionals to craft software solutions of any scale. ASP.NET Core 5 Design Patterns starts by exploring basic design patterns, architectural principles, dependency injection, and other ASP.NET Core mechanisms. You’ll explore the component scale as you discover patterns oriented toward small chunks of the software, and then move to application-scale patterns and techniques to understand higher-level patterns and how to structure the application as a whole. The book covers a range of significant GoF (Gangs of Four) design patterns such as strategy, singleton, decorator, facade, and composite. The chapters are organized based on scale and topics, allowing you to start small and build on a strong base, the same way that you would develop a program. With the help of use cases, the book will show you how to combine design patterns to display alternate usage and help you feel comfortable working with a variety of design patterns. Finally, you’ll advance to the client side to connect the dots and make ASP.NET Core a viable full-stack alternative. By the end of the book, you’ll be able to mix and match design patterns and have learned how to think about architecture and how it works.
Table of Contents (27 chapters)
1
Section 1: Principles and Methodologies
5
Section 2: Designing for ASP.NET Core
11
Section 3: Designing at Component Scale
15
Section 4: Designing at Application Scale
21
Section 5: Designing the Client Side
25
Acronyms Lexicon

Chapter 4: The MVC Pattern using Razor

The Model View Controller (MVC) pattern is probably one of the most extensively adapted architectural patterns for displaying web user interfaces. Why? Because it matches the concept behind HTTP and the web almost to perfection, especially for a typical server-rendered web application. For page-oriented applications, Razor Pages can also be a contestant to this claim.

From the old ASP.NET MVC to ASP.NET Core, the MVC framework is cleaner, leaner, faster, and more flexible than ever before. Moreover, dependency injection is now built-in at the heart of ASP.NET, which helps leverage its power. We will be covering dependency injection in greater depth in Chapter 7, Deep Dive into Dependency Injection.

MVC is an opt-in feature now, like pretty much everything else. You can opt-in MVC, Razor Pages, or web APIs and configure them with only a few statements. The ASP.NET pipeline is based on a series of middleware that can be leveraged to handle...