Web API Development with ASP.NET Core 6 (ASPNETTL502)

This ASP.NET Core 6 training course teaches attendees how to design and build high-performance, secure, well-architected REST APIs that can be consumed by a variety of clients. This course focuses specifically on APIs and does not include coverage of web UI topics such as Views and Razor Pages. An introduction to Blazor is included but it is not covered in-depth.

Note: This 4-day training course can be extended to five days with additional topics related to the C# programming language or Entity Framework Core.

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. Web APIs
   1. API Controllers
   2. Minimal APIs
   3. OpenAPI / Swagger
   4. Testing APIs
   5. Content Negotiation
   6. CRUD Operations
   7. Patch Requests
   8. Microservice Architecture
   9. API Gateway Pattern
   10. Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)
10. Data Validation
    1. Data Annotations
    2. Model Binding
11. Error Handling
    1. Best Practices
    2. HTTP Error Status Codes
    3. Exception Handling Middleware
12. Logging
    1. Configuration
    2. ILogger
    3. Serilog and Seq
13. Testing
    1. Unit Testing
    2. xUnit
    3. Testing Controllers
    4. Integration Testing
14. 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
15. Remote Procedure Calls (gRPC)
    1. Protobuf
    2. Server
    3. Client
    4. Limitations
16. Blazor
    1. Razor Components
    2. Blazor Server
17. Blazor WebAssembly
    1. Deployment
    2. dotnet publish
    3. Kestrel
    4. IIS
    5. 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: