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Sams Teach Yourself ASP.NET Core

in 24 Hours

Jeffrey T. Fritz

800 East 96th Street, Indianapolis, Indiana, 46240 USA

Sams Teach Yourself ASP.NET Core in 24 Hours

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Contents at a Glance

Introduction

HOUR 1 Introducing ASP.NET Core

2 Setting Up Your Work Environment for ASP.NET Core

3 Exploring the New Project Templates

4 Defining ASP.NET Core Configuration

5 Configuring the Service with the Startup Class

6 Configuring Your Application

7 Accessing Your Data with Entity Framework Core

8 Introducing the MVC Architecture

9 Building Your First Controller

10 Beginning MVC: Writing Your First View

11 Scaffolding User Interfaces

12 Writing Data from a Controller

13 Writing Web API Methods

14 Introducing Reusable User Interface Components

15 npm and bower: Client-Side Package Managers

16 Introducing Angular

17 Connecting Angular to ASP.NET Core

18 Routing Angular Requests Around ASP.NET Core

19 Running Angular on the Server

20 Authenticating Your Users

21 Granting Access to Users

22 Deploying to Production

23 Working with Docker Containers

24 Looking to the Future and .NET Standard

Index

Table of Contents

Introduction

HOUR 1: Introducing ASP.NET Core

What Is ASP.NET?

Why Should You Program in ASP.NET?

Significant Changes in ASP.NET Core

Assumptions and Definitions in This Book

Introducing the Sample Project

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Exercise

HOUR 2: Setting Up Your Work Environment for ASP.NET Core

Four Versions of Visual Studio: Where Do I Start?

Installing Development Tools on Non-Windows Operating Systems

Introducing the dotnet Command-Line Tool

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Exercise

HOUR 3: Exploring the New Project Templates

Getting Started with Visual Studio 2017

The wwwroot Folder

Getting Started with Visual Studio Code

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Exercise

HOUR 4: Defining ASP.NET Core Configuration

Introducing Our Sample Application

Getting Started with Server-Side Configuration

Fundamentals of .NET Application Structure

Managing and Referencing NuGet Packages

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Exercise

HOUR 5: Configuring the Service with the Startup Class

Introducing the Startup Class

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Exercise

HOUR 6: Configuring Your Application

Writing Configuration Files

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Exercise

HOUR 7: Accessing Your Data with Entity Framework Core

Getting Started with Data

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Exercise

HOUR 8: Introducing the MVC Architecture

Defining the MVC Architecture

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Exercise

HOUR 9: Building Your First Controller

Reviewing the MVC Folder Structure

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Exercise

HOUR 10: Beginning MVC: Writing Your First View

Introducing Razor Templates

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Exercise

HOUR 11: Scaffolding User Interfaces

Introducing Scaffolding in Visual Studio 2017

Investigating the Templates

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Exercise

HOUR 12: Writing Data from a Controller

Enhancing Scaffolded Code

Validating Data in Controller Methods

Investigating Controller Interaction Strategies

Preventing Unwanted Cross-site Posting

Speeding Up Data Access with Asynchronous Techniques

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Exercise

HOUR 13: Writing Web API Methods

In the Old Days of ASP.NET[…]

Creating a New Trip with Web API

Updating a Trip with Web API

Deleting a Trip with Web API

Negotiating and Formatting Content

Trimming the Fat: An API-Only Application

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Exercise

HOUR 14: Introducing Reusable User Interface Components

Introducing Tag Helpers

Tag Helpers That Ship with ASP.NET Core

Building Other Reusable Components

Writing Your Own Tag Helper

Writing a Constructor

Counting the Number of Trips

Formatting Your Trips

Using Your New Tag Helper

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Exercise

HOUR 15: npm and bower: Client-Side Package Managers

What Are npm and bower?

Getting Started with npm

Getting Started with bower

Automating npm and bower

Installing Newer Versions of npm and bower

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Exercise

HOUR 16: Introducing Angular

Getting Started with Angular

Exploring the Default Template Angular Website

Delivering Content to the Browser

Adding Some Real Code

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Exercise

HOUR 17: Connecting Angular to ASP.NET Core

Connecting the Pieces

Connecting to a Running ASP.NET Core Service

Combining the Projects: Merging Angular and ASP.NET Core

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Exercise

HOUR 18: Routing Angular Requests Around ASP.NET Core

What Is Routing?

Generating URLs from ASP.NET Core

Routing in Angular

Merging Projects: The Final Steps

Debugging and Building Your App

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Exercise

HOUR 19: Running Angular on the Server

Introducing Angular Universal

Migrating Your Application to SpaServices

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Exercise

HOUR 20: Authenticating Your Users

Starting a New Application

Configuring Authentication

Adding the Registration Feature

Adding the Login and Logout Features

Summary

Q&A

Workshop

Exercise