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Customizing ASP.NET Core 6.0 - Second Edition

By : Jürgen Gutsch
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Customizing ASP.NET Core 6.0 - Second Edition

By: Jürgen Gutsch

Overview of this book

ASP.NET Core is packed full of hidden features for building sophisticated web applications – but if you don’t know how to customize it, you’re not making the most of its capabilities. Customizing ASP.NET Core 6.0 is a book that will teach you all about tweaking the knobs at various layers and take experienced programmers’ skills to a new level. This updated second edition covers the latest features and changes in the .NET 6 LTS version, along with new insights and customization techniques for important topics such as authentication and authorization. You’ll also learn how to work with caches and change the default behavior of ASP.NET Core apps. This book will show you the essential concepts relating to tweaking the framework, such as configuration, dependency injection, routing, action filters, and more. As you progress, you'll be able to create custom solutions that meet the needs of your use case with ASP.NET Core. Later chapters will cover expert techniques and best practices for using the framework for your app development needs, from UI design to hosting. Finally, you'll focus on the new endpoint routing in ASP.NET Core to build custom endpoints and add third-party endpoints to your web apps for processing requests faster. By the end of this book, you'll be able to customize ASP.NET Core to develop better, more robust apps.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Hosting on IIS

An ASP.NET Core application shouldn't be directly exposed to the internet, even if it's supported for Kestrel or HTTP.sys. It would be best to have something such as a reverse proxy in between, or at least a service that watches the hosting process. For ASP.NET Core, IIS isn't just a reverse proxy. It also takes care of the hosting process, in case it breaks because of an error. If that happens, IIS will restart the process. Nginx may be used as a reverse proxy on Linux that also takes care of the hosting process.

Note

Be sure you created a new project or removed the Kestrel configuration of the previous section. This won't work with IIS.

To host an ASP.NET Core web on IIS or Azure, you need to publish it first. Publishing doesn't only compile the project; it also prepares the project for hosting on IIS, Azure, or a web server on Linux, such as Nginx.

The following command will publish the project:

dotnet publish -o ..\published...