Modern Web Development with ASP.NET Core 3: An end to end guide covering the latest features of Visual Studio 2019, Blazor and Entity Framework, 2nd Edition

Explore the tools and techniques to build scalable and secured restful web services and web applications using C# 8 and ASP. NET CORE 3.1

Key Features

• Delve into MVC patterns, configuration, routing, and deployment to build professional-grade applications
• Learn how to integrate ASP applications with the JavaScript frameworks React, Vue, and Angular
• Improve the performance of applications and the development team by implementing advanced ASP.NET Core concepts

Book Description

ASP.NET has been the preferred choice of web developers for a long time. With ASP.NET Core 3, Microsoft has made internal changes to the framework along with introducing new additions that will change the way you approach web development. This second edition has been thoroughly updated to help you make the most of the latest features in the framework, right from gRPC and conventions to Blazor, which has a new chapter dedicated to it.

You'll begin with an overview of the essential topics, exploring the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern, various platforms, dependencies, and frameworks. Next, you'll learn how to set up and configure the MVC environment, before delving into advanced routing options. As you advance, you'll get to grips with controllers and actions to process requests, and later understand how to create HTML inputs for models. Moving on, you'll discover the essential aspects of syntax and processes when working with Razor. You'll also get up to speed with client-side development and explore the testing, logging, scalability, and security aspects of ASP.NET Core. Finally, you'll learn how to deploy ASP.NET Core to several environments, such as Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Docker.

By the end of the book, you'll be well versed in development in ASP.NET Core and will have a deep understanding of how to interact with the framework and work cross-platform.

What you will learn

• Understand the new capabilities of ASP.NET Core 3.1
• Become well versed in how to configure ASP.NET Core to use it to its full potential
• Create controllers and action methods, and understand how to maintain state
• Implement and validate forms and retrieve information from them
• Improve productivity by enforcing reuse, process forms, and effective security measures
• Delve into the new Blazor development model
• Deploy ASP.NET Core applications to new environments, such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Docker

Who this book is for

If you are a developer with basic knowledge of ASP.NET MVC and want to build powerful applications, then this book is for you. Developers who want to explore the latest changes in ASP.NET Core 3.1 to build professional-level applications will also find this book useful. Familiarity with C#, ASP.NET Core, HTML, and CSS is expected to get the most out of this book.

Table of Contents

1. Getting Started with ASP.NET Core
2. Configuration
3. Routing
4. Controllers and Actions
5. Views
6. Using Forms and Views
7. Implementing Razor Pages
8. API Controllers
9. Reusable components
10. Understanding Filters
11. Security
12. Logging, Tracing, and Diagnostics
13. Understanding How Testing Works
14. Client-Side Development
15. Improving Performance and Scalability
16. Real-Time Communication
17. Introducing Blazor
18. gRPC and Other topics
19. Application Deployment
20. Appendix A: The dotnet Tool

Ricardo Peres is a Portuguese developer, blogger, and book author and is currently a team leader at Dixons Carphone. He has over 20 years of experience in software development and his interests include distributed systems, architectures, design patterns, and .NET development. He won the Microsoft MVP award in 2015 and has held this title up to 2020.

He also authored Entity Framework Core Cookbook - Second Edition and Mastering ASP.NET Core 2.0, and was a technical reviewer for Learning NHibernate 4 for Packt. He also contributed to Syncfusion's Succinctly collection, with titles on .NET development. Ricardo maintains a blog-Development With A Dot-where he writes about technical issues. You can catch up with him on Twitter at @rjperes75.