ASP.NET Core 2 Fundamentals: Build cross-platform apps and dynamic web services with this server-side web application framework

Imagine the boost in business if you can build large, rich web applications with little code and built-in Windows authentication. With this book, you can gain skills to develop real-world applications with ASP.NET Core 2.

Key Features

• Adopts the application-centric approach to explain core concepts
• Covers industry-best practices to build flexible, robust applications
• Shows how to enhance your applications by adding more functionalities

Book Description

The book sets the stage with an introduction to web applications and helps you build an understanding of the tried-and-true MVC architecture. You learn all about views, from what is the Razor view engine to tagging helpers. You gain insight into what models are, how to bind them, and how to migrate database using the correct model. As you get comfortable with the world of ASP.NET, you learn about validation and routing. You also learn the advanced concepts, such as designing Rest Buy (a RESTful shopping cart application), creating entities for it, and creating EF context and migrations. By the time you are done reading the book, you will be able to optimally use ASP.NET to develop, unit test, and deploy applications like a pro.

What you will learn

• Work with basic programming constructs using the Razor view engine
• Use flexibility and data compartmentalization of ViewModel
• Build a custom route for ASP.NET MVC applications for SEO
• Optimize applications with performance analysis and improvement steps
• Improve application performance, security, and data access to optimize the overall development process
• Deploy an ASP.NET MVC application in a non-Windows environment

Who this book is for

If you are looking to build web applications using ASP.NET Core or you want to become a pro in building web applications using the Microsoft technology, this is the ideal book for you. Prior exposure and understanding of C#, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS syntax is assumed.

Table of Contents

1. Setting the Stage
2. Controllers
3. Views
4. Models
5. Validation
6. Routing
7. Rest Buy
8. Adding Features, Testing, and Deployment

Onur Gumus works as a lead software engineer in Dubai UAE. He has 15 years of experience in .NET and web development. He is a functional programming enthusiast and has completed many large projects with ASP.NET.

Mugilan T. S. Ragupathi has been working on building web-based applications using the Microsoft technology for more than a decade. He is active in the ASP.NET community and is running a successful blog, Dot Net Odyssey, to help his fellow .NET developers. His free beginners' course for ASP.NET MVC 5 at the above blog was well received and is referred to as a concrete reference for beginners. He has also written two free micro ebooks, The 7 Most Popular Recipes of jQuery with ASP.NET Web Forms and Value & Reference types in C#. His books have received a good response. He can be seen on csharp subreddit/Stack Overflow and is also an active contributor to the ASP.NET community on Quora, going by the username "Mugil Ragu". He likes to help readers with queries regarding ASP.NET.