In Action ASP.NET Core in Action, Third Edition, (Paperback)

Build professional-grade full-stack web applications using C# and ASP.NET Core.

In ASP.NET Core in Action, Third Edition you'll learn how to:

• Build minimal APIs for serving JSON to client-side applications
• Create dynamic, server-side rendered applications using Razor Pages
• User authentication and authorization
• Store data using Entity Framework Core
• Unit and integration tests for ASP.NET Core applications
• Write custom middleware and components

Fully updated to ASP.NET Core 7.0! In ASP.NET Core in Action, Third Edition Microsoft MVP Andrew Lock teaches you how you can use your C# and .NET skills to build amazing cross-platform web applications. This revised bestseller reveals the latest .NET patterns, including minimal APIs and minimal hosting. Even if you've never worked with ASP.NET, you'll start creating productive cross-platform web apps fast. Illustrations and annotated code make learning visual and easy.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the technology

The ASP.NET Core web framework delivers everything you need to build professional-quality web applications. With productivity-boosting libraries for server-side rendering, secure APIs, easy data access and more, you'll spend your time implementing features instead of researching syntax and tracking down bugs. This book is your guide.

About the book

ASP.NET Core in Action, Third Edition shows you how to create production-grade web applications with ASP.NET Core 7.0. You'll learn from hands-on examples, insightful illustrations, and nicely explained code. Updated coverage in this Third Edition includes creating minimal APIs, securing APIs with bearer tokens, WebApplicationBuilder, and more.

What's inside

• Minimal APIs for serving JSON
• Server-side rendering using Razor Pages
• Data access with Entity Framework Core
• Write custom middleware and components

About the reader

For beginning to intermediate web developers. Examples are in C#.

About the author

Andrew Lock is a Microsoft MVP who has worked with ASP.NET Core since before its first release.

Table of Contents

1 Getting started with ASP.NET Core
PART 1 - GETTING STARTED WITH MINIMAL APIS
2 Understanding ASP.NET Core
3 Your first application
4 Handling requests with the middleware pipeline
5 Creating a JSON API with minimal APIs
6 Mapping URLs to endpoints using routing
7 Model binding and validation in minimal APIs
PART 2 - BUILDING COMPLETE APPLICATIONS
8 An introduction to dependency injection
9 Registering services with dependency injection
10 Configuring an ASP.NET Core application