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An Atypical ASP.NET Core 6 Design Patterns Guide - Second Edition

By : Carl-Hugo Marcotte
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An Atypical ASP.NET Core 6 Design Patterns Guide - Second Edition

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By: Carl-Hugo Marcotte

Overview of this book

An Atypical ASP.NET Core 6 Design Patterns Guide, Second Edition approaches programming like playing with LEGO®: snapping small pieces together to create something beautiful. Thoroughly updated for ASP.NET Core 6, with further coverage of microservices patterns, data contracts, and event-driven architecture, this book gives you the tools to build and glue reliable components together to improve your programmatic masterpieces. The chapters are organized based on scale and topic, allowing you to start small and build on a strong base, the same way that you would develop a program. You will begin by exploring basic design patterns, SOLID architectural principles, dependency injection, and other ASP.NET Core 6 mechanisms. You will explore component-scale patterns, and then move to higher level application-scale patterns and techniques to better structure your applications. Finally, you'll advance to the client side to connect the dots with tools like Blazor and make ASP.NET Core a viable full-stack web development framework. You will supplement your learning with practical use cases and best practices, exploring a range of significant Gang of Four (GoF) design patterns along the way. By the end of the book, you will be comfortable combining and implementing patterns in different ways, and crafting software solutions of any scale.
Table of Contents (31 chapters)
Preface
Free Chapter
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
26
Other Books You May Enjoy
27
Index
Appendices

ASP.NET Core User Interfaces

This chapter explores different ways to create user interfaces using ASP.NET Core and its extensive offerings. As macro-models, we have MVC, Razor Pages, and Blazor (Chapter 18, A Brief Look into Blazor). Then to micro-manage our UIs, we have partial views, view components, Tag Helpers, display templates, editor templates, and Razor components.

Furthermore, the .NET ecosystem includes other non-web technologies to build UIs, such as WinForms, WPF, UWP, and Xamarin. This chapter aims to give you a good understanding of the numerous ASP.NET Core options by exploring the tools you have at your disposal when programming web user interfaces to make your life easier.

Tip

Knowing many options is often better than being an expert in only one area because you can pick the right tool at the right time instead of systematically doing the same thing every time.

The following topics are covered in this chapter:

  • Getting familiar...