Learning Angular for .NET Developers: Develop dynamic .NET web applications powered by Angular - Softcover

Rajesh Gunasundaram

Softcover

ISBN 10: 178588428X ISBN 13: 9781785884283

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

Build efficient web apps and deliver great results by integrating Angular and the .NET framework

About This Book

• Become a more productive developer and learn to use frameworks that implement good development practices
• Achieve advanced autocompletion, navigation, and refactoring in Angular using Typescript
• Follow a gradual introduction to the concepts with a lot of examples and explore the evolution of a production-ready application

Who This Book Is For

If you are a .NET developer who now wants to efficiently build single-page applications using the new features that Angular 4 has to offer, then this book is for you. Familiarity of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript is assumed to get the most from this book.

What You Will Learn

• Create a standalone Angular application to prototype user interfaces
• Validate complex forms with Angular version 4 and use Bootstrap to style them
• Build RESTful web services that work well with single-page applications
• Use Gulp and Bower in Visual Studio to run tasks and manage JavaScript packages
• Implement automatic validation for web service requests to reduce your boilerplate code
• Use web services with Angular version 4 to offload and secure your application logic
• Test your Angular version 4 and web service code to improve the quality of your software deliverables

In Detail

Are you are looking for a better, more efficient, and more powerful way of building front-end web applications? Well, look no further, you have come to the right place!

This book comprehensively integrates Angular version 4 into your tool belt, then runs you through all the new options you now have on hand for your web apps without bogging you down. The frameworks, tools, and libraries mentioned here will make your work productive and minimize the friction usually associated with building server-side web applications.

Starting off with building blocks of Angular version 4, we gradually move into integrating TypeScript and ES6. You will get confident in building single page applications and using Angular for prototyping components. You will then move on to building web services and full-stack web application using ASP.NET WebAPI. Finally, you will learn the development process focused on rapid delivery and testability for all application layers.

Style and approach

This book covers everything there is to know about getting well-acquainted with Angular 4 and .NET without bogging you down. Everything is neatly laid out under clear headings for quick consultation, offering you the information required to understand a concept immediately, with short, relevant examples of each feature.

About this title

About the Author

Rajesh Gunasundaram is a software architect, technical writer, and blogger. He has over 15 years of experience in the IT industry, with more than 12 years of using Microsoft .NET, 2 years of using BizTalk Server, and a year of iOS application development.

Rajesh is the founder and editor of technical blogs called programmerguide and ioscorner, and you can find many of his technical writings on .NET and iOS. He is also the founder and developer of a web product, VideoLens, a platform that analyses Facebook and YouTube videos and channels. Also, he has written two books, ASP.NET Web API Security Essentials and CORS Essentials for Packt Publishing.

Rajesh is also a YouTuber, running two channels: rajeshmgonline and ProgrammerGuide. He holds a master's degree in computer application and began his career as a software engineer in 2002. He worked on client premises located in various countries, such as UK, Belarus, and Norway. He also has experience in developing mobile applications for iPhone and iPad. His technical strengths include Azure, Xamarin, ASP.NET MVC, Web API, WCF, .NET Framework/.Net Core, C#, Objective-C, Angular, Bot Framework, BizTalk, SQL Server, REST, SOA, design patterns, and software architecture.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 178588428X
• ISBN 13: 9781785884283
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248