OBJECTIVES

• Understand the goals and benefits of ASP.NET Core 6.0
• Learn to make good decisions about application architecture and data access technology
• Use ASP.NET’s routing system to achieve a REST-style architecture
• Gain experience building a service that makes data available via a modern web API
• Learn best practices for employing unit testing, logging, and error handling
• Understand different authentication choices for securing a web API
• Get an introduction to Blazor and gRPC
• Understand the different cross-platform deployment options available including via Docker containers

Duration: 5 days

PREREQUISITES

• Previous experience developing web-based applications with C#
• Some familiarity with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

OUTLINE

Introduction

• Evolution of .NET and .NET Core
• .NET SDKs and Runtimes
• Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code

.NET 6.0 SDK

• Installation
• Version Management
• Command-Line Interface (CLI)

What’s New in C#

• Record Types
• Init Only Setters
• Nullable Reference Types
• Global Using Directives
• File-Scoped Namespace Declarations
• Top-Level Statements

ASP.NET Core Application Architecture

• NuGet Packages
• Application Startup
• Hosting Environments
• Middleware and the Request Pipeline
• Services and Dependency Injection

Application Configuration

• Configuration Providers and Sources
• Configuration API
• Options Pattern
• HTTPS and HTTP/2

Request Routing

• RESTful Services
• Endpoint Routing
• Route Templates
• Route Constraints
• Route Template Precedence
• Attribute-Based Routing

Models

• Persistence Ignorance
• Dependency Inversion
• Asynchronous Data Access
• Object-Relational Mapping
• Entity Framework Core
• Dapper ORM

Controllers

• Responsibilities
• Requirements and Conventions
• Dependencies
• Action Results
• ApiController Attribute

Web APIs

• API Controllers
• Minimal APIs
• OpenAPI / Swagger
• Testing APIs
• Content Negotiation
• CRUD Operations
• Patch Requests
• Microservice Architecture
• API Gateway Pattern
• Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)

Data Validation

• Introduction
• Data Annotations
• Model Binding

Error Handling

• Best Practices
• HTTP Error Status Codes
• Exception Handling Middleware

Logging

• Configuration
• ILogger
• Serilog and Seq

Testing

• Unit Testing
• xUnit
• Testing Controllers
• Integration Testing

Security

• Authentication
• ASP.NET Identity
• Authorization
• Web API Authentication
• JSON Web Tokens (JWT)
• OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect

Remote Procedure Calls (gRPC)

• Introduction
• Protobuf
• Server
• Client
• Limitations

Blazor

• Razor Components
• Blazor Server
• Blazor WebAssembly

Deployment

• dotnet publish
• Kestrel
• IIS
• Docker