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Learning ASP.NET Core MVC Programming

Name: Learning ASP.NET Core MVC Programming
ISBN: 9781786463838

by Mugilan T. S. Ragupathi, Anuraj Parameswaran

November 2016

Intermediate to advanced

326 pages

6h 1m

English

Packt Publishing

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Learning ASP.NET Core MVC Programming
Learning ASP.NET Core MVC Programming
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Why subscribe?
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions

Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the example codeDownloading the color images of this bookErrataPiracyQuestions
1. Introduction to ASP.NET Core
How web applications workSo what is an HTTP protocol?Request-response patternStateless nature of HTTP
Client-side and server-side
HTTP methods
GET methodPOST method
What is ASP.NET?
ASP.NET Web FormsASP.NET Web PagesASP.NET MVC
Features of ASP.NET MVC
Convention over configurationSeparation of concernsControl over the generated HTMLBetter support for unit testing
ASP.NET 5
Features of ASP.NET 5
Summary
2. Setting Up the Environment
Purpose of IDE
Visual Studio offerings
System requirementsVisual Studio Community 2015Visual Studio ProfessionalVisual Studio EnterpriseVisual Studio Test Professional
Installing Visual Studio Community
Installing ASP.NET 5
Project structure in ASP.NET 5 application
File-based projectSupport for full .NET and .NET coreThe Project.json packageControllersModelsViewsMigrationsThe wwwroot folderOther files
Summary
3. Controllers
Role of the Controller in ASP.NET MVC applications
Introduction to routing
Creating ASP.NET 5 application
Installing the ASP.NET Core NuGet package in your application
Our first Controller
IActionResult
Adding Views
Adding Models
Passing data from Controller to View
Filters
Authorization filtersResource filtersAction filtersException filtersResult filters
Summary
4. Views
The View engine and the Razor View engineRazor View engineProgramming in Razor View engineVariables in Razor ViewThe for loopThe while loopThe foreach loopThe if condition
Layout
Creating _ViewStart.cshtmlCreating _Layout.cshtmlAdding a page-specific View
Generating HTML
HTML Helpers
Partial View
Calling the Partial View
View components
Creating a View component
Tag Helpers
Creating custom Tag Helpers
Summary
5. Models
ModelsModels specific to a View componentNote on ViewModelsData flow with respect to a Model
Model binding
The Entity Framework
The Entity Framework is independent of ASP.NET MVCCreating console applications with the Entity FrameworkInstalling the Entity Framework 7 NuGet packageUsing the NuGet Package ManagerUsing the Package Manager ConsoleInstalling Entity Framework commandsCreating Model classesCreating the DbContext classCreate a migrationHow the SaveChanges method worksUpdating the recordDeleting the record
Using the Entity Framework in ASP.NET MVC applications
Database migration
Summary
6. Validation
Client-side and server-side validation
Server-side validation
Updating View models with the Data Annotation attributeUpdating the View model to display the validation error messageUpdating the controller action method to verify the model state
Client-side validation
Implementation
Summary
7. Routing
Convention-based routingExample 1Example 2Example 3Example 4
Attribute-based routing
Route attribute at the controller level
Passing routing values in HTTP action verbs in the Controller
Route Constraints
Summary
8. Beautifying ASP.NET MVC Applications with Bootstrap
Knowing HTML and CSS
Bootstrap
Bootstrap Grid systemFormsInline formsHorizontal formsTable CSS classesStriped tablesHover tablesBordered tablesContextual classes in tableButtonsButton sizesContextual colors
Using Bootstrap in your ASP.NET MVC application
Installing with Bower
HTML doctype
Summary
9. Deployment of ASP.NET Core Application
The project.json fileThe dependencies nodeThe frameworks node
Microsoft Azure
Signing up to Microsoft AzurePrerequisites to Azure deployment
Deploying the ASP.NET Core application in Azure
Deploying the ASP.NET Core web application in the Linux environment
Creating a Linux machineInstalling the PuTTY clientInstalling of .NET Core in a Linux machine
Creating a new ASP.NET 5 project
Configuring the Nginx server
Summary
10. Building HTTP-based Web Services Using ASP.NET Web API
HTTP basicsHTTP verbsGET methodPUT methodPOST methodDELETE methodFiddler tool
Dependency Injection
Delete methodThe Web API method for deleting a resourceWeb Repository layer code for deleting the employee data
Summary
11. Improving Performance of an ASP.NET Core Application
The UI layer
Reducing the number of HTTP requests
Using GZip compressionUsing the Content Delivery Network (CDN)Using JavaScript wherever possibleUsing CSS stylesheets
Minification of JavaScript and CSS files and their combination
The caching process
Client-side cachingResponse caching
The web/application layer
No business logic in ViewsUsing asynchronous loggingThe DB layerUnderstanding the queries generated by the ORMUsing classic ADO.NET if you really want toReturn only the required dataFine tuning the indicesUsing the correct column type and size for your database columnsAvoiding correlated subqueries
Generic performance improvement tips
Avoiding the Response.Redirect methodUsing string builder
Summary
12. ASP.NET Core Identity
Authentication
Authorization
Adding the relevant dependencies to the project.json file
Adding ApplicationUser and ApplicationDbContext classes
Configuring the application to use Identity
Creating ViewModels
Creating Controllers and associated action methods
Creating Views
E-mail and SMS services
Securing an action method in a Controller
Summary

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Installing the ASP.NET Core NuGet package in your application

Follow these steps to install the NuGet package of ASP.NET MVC:

Right click on the project, and select the Manage NuGet Packages option:
Select the Include Prerelease checkbox so that the NuGet Package Manager will list out all the prerelease packages. Search for MVC and you'll get the Microsoft.AspNet.MVC package, as shown in the following result, and click on the Install button on the right-hand side:
Review the changes:
Once you click on Review Changes, the following dialog box will ...

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by Mugilan T. S. Ragupathi, Anuraj Parameswaran

Installing the ASP.NET Core NuGet package in your application

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