Ebook: Pro ASP.NET Core 7, Tenth Edition (Final Release)

Now in its tenth edition, this industry-leading guide to ASP.NET Core teaches everything you need to know to create easy, extensible, and cloud-native web applications.

Inside Pro ASP.NET Core 7 you will learn how to:

Configure the ASP.NET Core request pipeline to handle requests
Create RESTful web services with MVC controllers
Create HTML responses with Razor and Razor Pages
Create richly interactive web applications with Blazor
Access data using Entity Framework Core
Authenticate requests using ASP.NET Core Identity

Pro ASP.NET Core is an acclaimed bestseller, and a bible for .NET web developers. Tens of thousands of readers have benefited from its comprehensive coverage of ASP.NET’s key tools and techniques. Now in its tenth edition, this revised guide has been fully updated to .NET 7, with extensive chapters on Razor Pages, Blazor, and the MVC framework. It maintains the style and structure of popular previous editions, with content updated for ASP.NET Core’s latest evolution.

About the Technology:
ASP.NET Core 7 gives you everything you need to create awesome web apps in C#. This powerful framework handles anything you throw at it, from high-volume HTTP requests and RESTful web services, to efficient HTML and CSS round trips and WebAssembly for rich user interactions.

About the Book:
Pro ASP.NET Core 7 is the industry-leading guide to building web applications with ASP.NET Core. In it, you’ll build a realistic online store as you learn about web services, authentication and authorization, container deployment, and more. Author Adam Freeman’s comfortable style mentors you through advanced topics like RESTful web services, Razor Pages for HTML responses, and data access with Entity Framework Core. Engaging hands-on examples show you how each tool works in action.

The book has four parts. The first part covers setting up the development environment, creating a simple web application, and using the development tools. There is also a primer on important C# features for readers who are moving from an earlier version of ASP.NET or ASP.NET Core. The rest of this part of the book contains the SportsStore example application, which shows how to create a basic but functional online store, and demonstrates how the many different ASP.NET Core features work together.

The second part of the book describes the key features of the ASP.NET Core platform. I explain how HTTP requests are processed, how to create and use middleware components, how to create routes, how to define and consume services, and how to work with Entity Framework Core. These chapters explain the foundations of ASP.NET Core, and understanding them is essential for effective ASP.NET Core development.

The third part of the book focuses on the ASP.NET features you will need every day, including HTTP request handling, creating RESTful web services, generating HTML responses, and receiving data from users.

The final part of this book describes advanced ASP.NET Core features, including using Blazor to create rich client-side applications, and using ASP.NET Core Identity to authenticate users.

What's Inside:
The ASP.NET Core request pipeline
RESTful web services with MVC controllers
Rich interactive applications with Blazor
Authenticate requests using ASP.NET Core Identity

About the Reader:
For web developers experienced with C# and the basics of .NET.