Comprehensive ASP.NET Core 6 Development (ASPNETTL501)

This ASP.NET Core 6 training course provides comprehensive coverage of how to develop web applications with Microsoft’s ASP.NET Core 6 framework. Coverage of Web UIs includes the MVC pattern as well as Razor Pages. For Web APIs, attendees learn to build a traditional API, implement a microservice architecture, and use the new minimal API feature. An introduction to Blazor is included but it is not covered in-depth.

1. Introduction
   1. Evolution of .NET and .NET Core
   2. .NET SKDs and Runtimes
   3. Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code
2. .NET 6.0 SDK
   1. Installation
   2. Version Management
   3. Command-Line Interface (CLI)
3. What’s New in C#
   1. Record Types
   2. Init Only Setters
   3. Nullable Reference Types
   4. Global Using Directives
   5. File-Scoped Namespace Declarations
   6. Top-Level Statements
4. ASP.NET Core Application Architecture
   1. NuGet Packages
   2. Application Startup
   3. Hosting Environments
   4. Middleware and the Request Pipeline
   5. Services and Dependency Injection
5. Application Configuration
   1. Configuration Providers and Sources
   2. Configuration API
   3. Options Pattern
   4. HTTPS and HTTP/2
6. Request Routing
   1. RESTful Services
   2. Endpoint Routing
   3. Route Templates
   4. Route Constraints
   5. Route Template Precedence
   6. Attribute-Based Routing
7. Models
   1. Persistence Ignorance
   2. Dependency Inversion
   3. Asynchronous Data Access
   4. Object-Relational Mapping
   5. Entity Framework Core
   6. Dapper ORM
8. Controllers
   1. Responsibilities
   2. Requirements and Conventions
   3. Dependencies
   4. Action Results
   5. ApiController Attribute
9. Views
   1. Responsibilities
   2. Conventions
   3. Razor Syntax
   4. Layouts
   5. ViewData and ViewBag
   6. Strongly-Typed Views
   7. Partial Views
   8. HTML and URL Helpers
   9. Tag Helpers
   10. View Components
   11. Client-Side Dependencies
   12. Razor Pages
   13. View Models
10. HTML Forms
    1. Tag Helpers
    2. Form Submissions
    3. Model Binding
11. Input Validation
    1. Data Annotations
    2. Model Binding
    3. Input Tag Helpers
    4. Validation Tag Helpers
12. Application State
    1. Client-Side vs. Server-Side
    2. HttpContext.Items
    3. Session State
    4. TempData
13. Web APIs
    1. API Controllers
    2. Minimal APIs
    3. OpenAPI / Swagger
    4. Testing APIs
    5. Content Negotiation
    6. CRUD Operations
    7. Microservice Architecture
    8. Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)
14. Error Handling
    1. Best Practices
    2. HTTP Error Status Codes
    3. Developer Exception Page
15. Logging
    1. Configuration
    2. ILogger
    3. Serilog and Seq
16. Testing
    1. Unit Testing
    2. xUnit
    3. Testing Controllers
    4. Integration Testing
17. Security
    1. Authentication
    2. ASP.NET Identity
    3. Authorization
    4. Web API Authentication
    5. JSON Web Tokens (JWT)
    6. OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect
    7. Secrets Management
18. Remote Procedure Calls (gRPC)
    1. Protobuf
    2. Server
    3. Client
    4. Limitations
19. Blazor
    1. Razor Components
    2. Blazor Server
    3. Blazor WebAssembly
20. Deployment
    1. dotnet publish
    2. Kestrel
    3. IIS
    4. Docker

Each student receives a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all class examples.

Experience in the following is required for this ASP.NET class: