In ASP.NET Core in Action, Third Edition you'll learn how to:

• Build minimal APIs for serving JSON to client-side applications
• Create dynamic, server-side rendered applications using Razor Pages
• User authentication and authorization
• Store data using Entity Framework Core
• Unit and integration tests for ASP.NET Core applications
• Write custom middleware and components

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the technology

The ASP.NET Core web framework delivers everything you need to build professional-quality web applications. With productivity-boosting libraries for server-side rendering, secure APIs, easy data access and more, you'll spend your time implementing features instead of researching syntax and tracking down bugs. This book is your guide.

About the book

ASP.NET Core in Action, Third Edition shows you how to create production-grade web applications with ASP.NET Core 7.0. You'll learn from hands-on examples, insightful illustrations, and nicely explained code. Updated coverage in this Third Edition includes creating minimal APIs, securing APIs with bearer tokens, WebApplicationBuilder, and more.

What's inside

• Minimal APIs for serving JSON
• Server-side rendering using Razor Pages
• Data access with Entity Framework Core
• Write custom middleware and components

For beginning to intermediate web developers. Examples are in C#.

About the author

Andrew Lock is a Microsoft MVP who has worked with ASP.NET Core since before its first release.

Table of Contents

1 Getting started with ASP.NET Core
PART 1 - GETTING STARTED WITH MINIMAL APIS
2 Understanding ASP.NET Core
3 Your first application
4 Handling requests with the middleware pipeline
5 Creating a JSON API with minimal APIs
6 Mapping URLs to endpoints using routing
7 Model binding and validation in minimal APIs
PART 2 - BUILDING COMPLETE APPLICATIONS
8 An introduction to dependency injection
9 Registering services with dependency injection
10 Configuring an ASP.NET Core application
11 Documenting APIs with OpenAPI
12 Saving data with Entity Framework Core
PART 3 - GENERATING HTML WITH RAZOR PAGES AND MVC
13 Creating a website with Razor Pages
14 Mapping URLs to Razor Pages using routing
15 Generating responses with page handlers in Razor Pages
16 Binding and validating requests with Razor Pages
17 Rendering HTML using Razor views
18 Building forms with Tag Helpers
19 Creating a website with MVC controllers
20 Creating an HTTP API using web API controllers
21 The MVC and Razor Pages filter pipeline
22 Creating custom MVC and Razor Page filters
PART 4 - SECURING AND DEPLOYING YOUR APPLICATIONS
23 Authentication: Adding users to your application with Identity
24 Authorization: Securing your application
25 Authentication and authorization for APIs
26 Monitoring and troubleshooting errors with logging
27 Publishing and deploying your application
28 Adding HTTPS to an application
29 Improving your application's security
PART 5 - GOING FURTHER WITH ASP.NET CORE
30 Building ASP.NET Core apps with the generic host and Startup
31 Advanced configuration of ASP.NET Core
32 Building custom MVC and Razor Pages components
33 Calling remote APIs with IHttpClientFactory
34 Building background tasks and services
35 Testing applications with xUnit
36 Testing ASP.NET Core applications

Develop web API applications using design patterns, advanced customization, and cutting-edge technologies, such as SignalR, gRPC, and GraphQL, while leveraging powerful cloud platforms and tools to accelerate development

Key Features:

- Gain proficiency in building modern ASP.NET Core web API applications

- Develop the skills to effectively test, debug, and secure your web API applications

- Streamline development workflows and boost productivity with cloud computing platforms and industry-standard CI/CD tools

- Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook

Book Description:

Web API applications have become increasingly significant in recent years, fueled by the ever-accelerating pace of technological advancements. However, with this rapid evolution comes the need to create web API apps that are not only functional but also adaptable, maintainable, and scalable to meet the demands of users and businesses alike. This book draws from the author's immense technical expertise and decades of experience in software development to help you address this challenge head-on, equipping you with the knowledge and skills required to develop web API apps from scratch.

By providing a deeper understanding of the various protocols implemented by ASP.NET Core, including RESTful, SignalR (WebSocket), gRPC, and GraphQL, supplemented by practical examples and optimization techniques, such as using middleware, testing, caching, and logging, this book offers invaluable insights for both newcomers as well as seasoned developers to meet modern web development requirements. Additionally, you'll discover how to use cloud platforms such as Azure and Azure DevOps to enhance the development and operational aspects of your application.

By the end of this book, you'll be fully prepared to undertake enterprise-grade web API projects with confidence, harnessing the latest advancements in ASP.NET Core 8 to drive innovation.

What You Will Learn:

Build a strong foundation in web API fundamentals

- Explore the ASP.NET Core 8 framework and other industry-standard libraries and tools for high-performance, scalable web APIs

- Apply essential software design patterns such as MVC, dependency injection, and the repository pattern

- Use Entity Framework Core for database operations and complex query creation

- Implement robust security measures to protect against malicious attacks and data breaches

- Deploy your application to the cloud using Azure and leverage Azure DevOps to implement CI/CD

Who this book is for:

This book is for developers who want to learn how to build web APIs with ASP.NET Core and create flexible, maintainable, scalable applications with .NET platform. Basic knowledge of C#, .NET, and Git will assist with understanding the concepts more easily.

Table of Contents

- Fundamentals of Web APIs

- Getting Started with ASP.NET Core Web APIs

- ASP.NET Core Fundamentals (Part 1)

- ASP.NET Core Fundamentals (Part 2)

- Data Access in ASP.NET Core (Part 1: Entity Framework Core Fundamentals)

- Data Access in ASP.NET Core (Part 2: Entity Relationships)

- Data Access in ASP.NET Core (Part 3: Tips)

- Security and Identity in ASP.NET Core

- Testing in ASP.NET Core (Part 1 - Unit Testing)

- Testing in ASP.NET Core (Part 2 - Integration Testing)

- Getting Started with gRPC

- Getting Started with GraphQL

- Getting Started with SignalR

- CI/CD for ASP.NET Core Using Azure Pipelines and GitHub Actions

- ASP.NET Core Web API Common Practices

- Error Handling, Monitoring, and Observability

- Cloud-Native Patterns

- Leveraging Open-Source Frameworks

Summary
Entity Framework Core in Action, Second Edition is an in-depth guide to reading and writing databases with EF Core. Revised from the bestselling original edition, it's filled with over 100 diagrams, code snippets, and examples--including building and scaling your own bookselling web application. Learn from author Jon Smith's extensive experience working with EF Core in production, as you discover time-saving patterns and best practices for security, performance tuning, and unit testing. All of the book's code is available on GitHub.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the technology
Entity Framework radically simplifies data access in .NET applications. This easy-to-use object-relational mapper (ORM) lets you write database code in pure C#. It automatically maps classes to database tables and enables queries with standard LINQ commands. It even generates SQL, so you don't have to!

About the book
Entity Framework Core in Action, Second Edition teaches you to write flawless database interactions for .NET applications. Following relevant examples from author Jon Smith's extensive experience, you'll progress quickly from EF basics to advanced techniques. In addition to the latest EF features, this book addresses performance, security, refactoring, and unit testing. This updated edition also contains new material on NoSQL databases.

What's inside

Configure EF to define every table and column
Update your schema as your app grows
Integrating EF with existing C# application
Write and test business logic for database access
Applying a Domain-Driven Design to EF Core
Getting the best performance out of EF Core

About the reader
For .NET developers familiar with relational databases.

About the author
Jon P. Smith is a freelance software developer and architect with a special focus on .NET and Azure.

Table of Contents

PART 1
1 Introduction to Entity Framework Core
2 Querying the database
3 Changing the database content
4 Using EF Core in business logic
5 Using EF Core in ASP.NET Core web applications
6 Tips and techniques for reading and writing with EF Core
PART 2
7 Configuring nonrelational properties
8 Configuring relationships
9 Handling database migrations
10 Configuring advanced features and handling concurrency conflicts
11 Going deeper into the DbContext
PART 3
12 Using entity events to solve business problems
13 Domain-Driven Design and other architectural approaches
14 EF Core performance tuning
15 Master class on performance-tuning database queries
16 Cosmos DB, CQRS, and other database types
17 Unit testing EF Core applications

Build apps using .NET MAUI and Blazor with this comprehensive, revised guide for .NET 8.

Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in PDF format.

• Handle data effectively with expanded coverage on the MVVM model and data binding
• Integrate platform-specific code using plugins and custom controls
• Migrate from Xamarin.Forms to .NET MAUI for the latest hybrid app development capabilities

An evolution of Xamarin.Forms, .NET MAUI is a cross-platform framework for creating native mobile and desktop apps with C# and XAML. Using .NET MAUI, you can develop apps that'll run on Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows from a single shared codebase. In this revised edition of .NET MAUI Cross-Platform Application Development you will be introduced to .NET 8 and get up to speed with app development in no time.

The book begins by showing you how to develop a cross-platform application using .NET MAUI, including guidance for migrating from Xamarin.Forms. You'll gain all the knowledge needed to create a cross-platform application for Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows following an example project step by step.

As you advance, you'll integrate the latest frontend technology into your app using Blazor components, including the new Blazor Bindings feature. After this, you'll learn how to test and deploy your apps. With new coverage on creating mock .NET MAUI components, you can develop unit tests for your application. You will additionally learn how to perform Razor component testing using bUnit.

By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to develop your own cross-platform applications using .NET MAUI.

• Develop high-performance apps with logical user interfaces
• Improve the maintainability of apps using the MVVM design pattern
• Understand the progression from Xamarin.Forms and how to migrate to .NET
• Delve into templated components and Razor class libraries for crafting Blazor UI elements
• Publish your creations to major app stores with guidance on preparation and processes
• Extend your testing repertoire with bUnit for Razor components for reliable unit testing

This book is for mobile developers interested in cross-platform application development with working experience of the .NET Core framework, as well as junior engineers who've just begun their career in mobile app development. Native app developers (desktop) or Xamarin developers who want to migrate to .NET MAUI will also benefit from this book. Basic knowledge of modern object-oriented programming languages, such as C#, Java or Kotlin, is assumed.

1. Getting Started with .NET MAUI
2. Building Our First .NET MAUI App
3. User Interface Design with XAML
4. Exploring MVVM and Data Binding
5. Navigation using .NET MAUI Shell and NavigationPage
6. Software Design with Dependency Injection
7. Using Platform-Specific Features
8. Introducing Blazor Hybrid App Development
9. Understanding Blazor Routing and Layout
10. Implementing Razor Components
11. Developing Unit Tests
12. Deploying and Publishing in App Stores

This 2nd Edition of Murach's ASP.NET Core MVC does a better job than ever of delivering the skills you need to develop websites using the MVC (Model-View-Controller) pattern with ASP.NET Core. If you know the basics of C#, you'll quickly learn to code the way today's top web professionals do. Each section features clear, beginner-friendly examples and easy-to-understand explanations that walk you through crucial skills, best practices, and helpful tips.

Based on the bestselling .NET Core in Action, the new .NET in Action, Second Edition has been completely rewritten and updated by original author Dustin Metzgar--an industry veteran who helped develop both the original .NET Framework and .NET Core.

.NET in Action, Second Edition presents the big picture of .NET application development, introducing core concepts like:

• Designing applications to take full advantage of .NET 8
• Integrating the latest C# and .NET features
• Building web services and applications with ASP.NET Core
• Working with data in files and remote services, and databases via Entity Framework Core
• Verifying code with unit and integration tests
• Make applications ready for internationalization
• Benchmarking and analyzing application performance

Foreword by Scott Hanselman.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the technology

The Microsoft .NET platform is a godsend for application developers. .NET provides a comprehensive framework, with consistent tooling for web, mobile, and line-of-business applications, high-performance games, and massive distributed systems. A perfect blend of power and flexibility, its just-in-time compiler runs multiple languages, including C#, Visual Basic, and F#.

About the book

.NET in Action, Second Edition teaches you to build cross-platform applications and services on the .NET platform. It gives you the big picture, systematically presenting the features you need to ship high-quality apps, without bogging you down in low-level details. You'll learn to benchmark and analyze performance issues, secure your sites and products, and explore modern architectures like microservices. This totally-revised new edition now covers .NET 8 and new C# language features, along with updates to ASP.NET Core and Entity Framework Core.

What's inside

• Take advantage of the latest C# and .NET features
• Secure your applications
• Performance analysis and tuning
• Modern application design techniques

About the reader

For beginning-to-intermediate developers on any platform. No .NET experience required.

About the author

Dustin Metzgar is a seasoned developer and architect. At Microsoft, Dustin contributed to the .NET Framework, .NET Core, and the open sourcing of .NET.

The technical editor on this book was Gerald Versluis.

Table of Contents

PART 1
1 Why.NET?
2 Building a console application
3 Creating web ser vices and applications with ASP.NET Core
PART 2
4 File and network I/O
5 Using Entity Framework Core with relational databases
PART 3
6 Unit-testing fundamentals
7 Substituting dependencies in tests
8 Integration testing
PART 4
9 Security
10 Performance and profiling
11 Handling failures
12 Building world-ready applications
13 Working with containers

In this book, we take you on a fun, hands-on crash course to learning ASP.NET Core 8 MVC. You'll start building your first app with ASP.NET within minutes. Every section is written in a bite-sized manner and straight to the point as I don't want to waste your time (and most certainly mine) on the content you don't need.

The goal of this book is to teach you ASP.NET in a manageable way without overwhelming you. We focus only on the essentials and cover the material in a hands-on practice manner for you to code along.

Dependency Injection Principles, Practices, and Patterns teaches you to use DI to reduce hard-coded dependencies between application components. You'll start by learning what DI is and what types of applications will benefit from it. Then, you'll work through concrete scenarios using C# and the .NET framework to implement DI in your own projects. As you dive into the thoroughly-explained examples, you'll develop a foundation you can apply to any of the many DI libraries for .NET and .NET Core.

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

About the Technology

Dependency Injection (DI) is a great way to reduce tight coupling between software components. Instead of hard-coding dependencies, such as specifying a database driver, you make those connections through a third party. Central to application frameworks like ASP.NET Core, DI enables you to better manage changes and other complexity in your software.

About the Book

Dependency Injection Principles, Practices, and Patterns is a revised and expanded edition of the bestselling classic Dependency Injection in .NET. It teaches you DI from the ground up, featuring relevant examples, patterns, and anti-patterns for creating loosely coupled, well-structured applications. The well-annotated code and diagrams use C# examples to illustrate principles that work flawlessly with modern object-oriented languages and DI libraries.

What's Inside

• Refactoring existing code into loosely coupled code
• DI techniques that work with statically typed OO languages
• Integration with common .NET frameworks
• Updated examples illustrating DI in .NET Core

For intermediate OO developers.

About the Authors

Mark Seemann is a programmer, software architect, and speaker who has been working with software since 1995, including six years with Microsoft. Steven van Deursen is a seasoned .NET developer and architect, and the author and maintainer of the Simple Injector DI library.

Table of Contents

PART 1 Putting Dependency Injection on the map
1. The basics of Dependency Injection: What, why, and how
2. Writing tightly coupled code
3. Writing loosely coupled code
PART 2 Catalog
4. DI patterns
5. DI anti-patterns
6. Code smells
PART 3 Pure DI
7. Application composition
8. Object lifetime
9. Interception
10. Aspect-Oriented Programming by design
11. Tool-based Aspect-Oriented Programming
PART 4 DI Containers
12. DI Container introduction
13. The Autofac DI Container
14. The Simple Injector DI Container
15. The Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection DI Container

Develop modern web UIs with Blazor Server and Blazor WebAssembly - now introducing Streaming and Static Server-Side Rendering (SSR) and flexible hosting models in .NET 8

Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in PDF format

• Create a production-ready Blazor application from start to finish
• Find out how, when, and why to use Blazor Server and Blazor WebAssembly, as well as Blazor Hybrid
• Explore crucial new coverage of streaming rendering, server-side rendering (SSR), flexible hosting models, and Blazor templates

Web Development with Blazor is your essential guide to building and deploying interactive web applications in C# - without relying on JavaScript.

Written by an early Blazor adopter and updated for .NET 8, this book takes you through the end-to-end development of an example app, helping you to overcome common challenges along the way. You'll pick up both Blazor Server and Blazor WebAssembly and discover cutting-edge tools to enrich your development experience.

Responding to evolving needs, this edition introduces flexible hosting models, allowing you to mix and match hosting approaches to create flexible and scalable Blazor applications. It also presents the new Blazor templates, which provide ready-made solutions to simplify and expedite development. You'll learn about the game-changing server-side rendering (SSR), a hybrid hosting model blending the strengths of Blazor Server and Blazor WebAssembly, as well as streaming rendering, a new technique that boosts the performance and user experience of Blazor apps.

By the end of this book, you'll have the confidence you need to create and deploy production-ready Blazor applications using best practices, along with a big-picture view of the Blazor landscape.

• Understand how and when to use Blazor Server, Blazor WebAssembly, and Blazor Hybrid
• Learn how to build simple and advanced Blazor components
• Explore how Minimal APIs work and build your own API
• Discover how to use streaming rendering and server-side rendering (SSR)
• Mix and match different hosting models to create flexible and scalable Blazor apps
• Familiarise yourself with the new Blazor templates that simplify development
• Debug your Blazor Server and Blazor WebAssembly applications

This book is for .NET web developers and software developers who want to use their existing C# skills to build interactive web applications running either inside the web browser using Blazor WebAssembly, on the server using Blazor Server, or a combination of the two.

You'll need basic knowledge of C# and prior exposure to .NET web development before you get started; the book will guide you through the rest.

1. Hello Blazor
2. Creating Your First Blazor App
3. Managing State - Part 1
4. Understanding Basic Blazor Components
5. Creating Advanced Blazor Components
6. Building Forms with Validation
7. Creating an API
8. Authentication and Authorization
9. Sharing Code and Resources
10. JavaScript Interop
11. Managing State - Part 2
12. Debugging the Code
13. Testing
14. Deploying to Production
15. Moving from, or Combining, an Existing Site
16. Going Deeper into WebAssembly
17. Examining Source Generators
18. Visiting .NET MAUI
19. Where to Go from Here

Build robust, scalable web applications using ASP.NET Core 8, Angular, and Entity Framework Core

Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook

• Combine ASP.NET Core and Angular to build highly versatile web applications
• Create a production-ready Single-Page Application (SPA) or Progressive Web Application (PWA)
• Adopt a full-stack approach to handle data management, API documentation, Web APIs, end-to-end testing, security, and deployment

If you want to learn how to use ASP.NET Core with Angular effectively, this hands-on guide is for you.

Improve the way you create, debug, and deploy web applications while keeping up to date with the latest developments in .NET 8 and modern Angular, including .NET Minimal APIs and the new Angular standalone API defaults.

You'll begin by setting up SQL Server 2022 and building a data model with Entity Framework Core. You'll progress to fetching and displaying data, handling user input with Angular reactive forms, and implementing front-end and back-end validators for maximum effect. After that, you will perform advanced debugging and explore unit testing features with xUnit for .NET, and Jasmine and Karma for Angular. You'll use Identity API endpoints in ASP.NET Core and functional route guards in Angular to add authentication and authorization to your apps. Finally, you'll learn how to deploy to Windows, Linux, and Azure.

By the end of this book, you will understand how to tie together the front-end and back-end to build and deploy secure and robust web applications.

• Explore the new Angular and ASP.NET Core template with Visual Studio 2022
• Use modern interfaces and patterns such as the HTML5 pushState API, webhooks, and UI data bindings
• Add real-time capabilities to Angular apps with SignalR and gRPC
• Implement authentication and authorization using JWTs
• Perform DBMS structured logging using providers such as SeriLog
• Convert a standard web application to a progressive web application (PWA)
• Deploy an Angular app to Azure Static Web Apps
• Add GraphQL support to back-end and front-end using HotChocolate and Apollo Angular

This book is for developers who have some familiarity with ASP.NET Core and Angular and want to learn how to use them effectively together.

1. Introducing ASP.NET and Angular
2. Getting Ready
3. Looking Around
4. Front-End and Back-End Interactions
5. Data Model with Entity Framework Core
6. Fetching and Displaying Data
7. Forms and Data Validation
8. Code Tweaks and Data Services
9. Back-End and Front-End Debugging
10. ASP.NET Core and Angular Unit Testing
11. Authentication and Authorization
12. Progressive Web Apps
13. Beyond REST - Web API with GraphQL
14. Real-Time Updates with SignalR
15. Windows, Linux, and Azure Deployment

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

Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.

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.

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

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

About the author

Adam Freeman has written over a dozen bestselling books on software development. He has held numerous senior IT positions, most recently as CTO and COO of a global bank. The technical editor on this book is Fabio Claudio Ferracchiati.

Table of Contents

1 Putting ASP.NET Core in context
Part 1
2 Getting started
3 Your first ASP.NET Core application
4 Using the development tools
5 Essential C# features
6 Testing ASP.NET Core applications
7 SportsStore: A real application
8 SportsStore: Navigation and cart
9 SportsStore: Completing the cart
10 SportsStore: Administration
11 SportsStore: Security and deployment
Part 2
12 Understanding the ASP.NET Core platform
13 Using URL routing
14 Using dependency injection
15 Using the platform features, part 1
16 Using the platform features, part 2
17 Working with data
Part 3
18 Creating the example project
19 Creating RESTful web services
20 Advanced web service features
21 Using controllers with views, part I
22 Using controllers with views, part II
23 Using Razor Pages
24 Using view components
25 Using tag helpers
26 Using the built-in tag helpers
27 Using the forms tag helpers
28 Using model binding
29 Using model validation
30 Using filters
31 Creating form applications
Part 4
32 Creating the example project
33 Using Blazor Server, part 1
34 Using Blazor Server, part 2
35 Advanced Blazor features
36 Blazor forms and data
37 Using Blazor WebAssembly
38 Using ASP.NET Core Identity
39 Applying ASP.NET Core Identity

Harness the powerful features of .NET MAUI, the evolution of Xamarin.Forms, to create multi-platform app projects using location services, the weather API, machine learning, and much more

Key Features

- Leverage .NET MAUI through real-world projects, from weather apps to real-time multiplayer games with SignalR and Azure Functions

- Explore the essential features of .NET MAUI such as Shell, CollectionView, and CarouselView

- Go beyond the basics with advanced topics like machine learning using TensorFlow and ML.NET

- Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook

Book Description

This third edition of .NET MAUI Projects explores the features of .NET MAUI, a lightweight multi-platform development toolkit for building apps with a rich user interface. Updated to cover the latest features of .NET MAUI, including CollectionView and Shell, this book delves into concepts such as machine learning and cloud services.

Starting with an overview of .NET Core and how it works, this book shares tips for choosing the right development environment for planning multi-platform apps. You'll then build your first .NET MAUI app and advance to learning how to use Shell to implement app architecture. Progressing in complexity, the projects guide you through creating apps, ranging from a location tracker and weather map to machine learning and multiplayer games. Further, the book will take you through modern mobile development frameworks such as SQLite, .NET Core, and ML.NET, empowering you to customize your apps for Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS platforms for native-like performance. Engaging examples are woven throughout the book so you can grasp essential concepts by writing code rather than extensive theory.

By the end of this book, you'll be ready to develop your own native apps using .NET MAUI and associated technologies such as .NET Core, Visual Studio 2022, and C#.

What you will learn

- Set up .NET MAUI to build native apps for multiple platforms using its single project capabilities

- Understand the core aspects of developing a mobile app, such as layout, UX, and rendering

- Use custom handlers for platform-specific access

- Discover how to create custom layouts for your apps with .NET MAUI Shell

- Implement serverless services in your .NET MAUI apps using Azure SignalR

- Create a .NET MAUI Blazor application leveraging the power of web technologies

- Build and train machine learning models using ML.NET and Azure Cognitive Services

Who this book is for

This book is for C# and .NET developers who want to learn .NET MAUI and get started with native .NET Core mobile application development from the ground up. Working knowledge of Visual Studio and C# will help you to get the most out of this book.

Table of Contents

- Introduction to .NET MAUI

- Building Our First .NET MAUI App

- Converting a Xamarin.Forms App to .NET MAUI

- Building a News App Using .NET MAUI Shell

- Building a Matchmaking App with a Rich UX Using Animations

- Building a Photo Gallery App Using CollectionView and CarouselView

- Building a Location Tracking App Using GPS and Maps

- Building a Weather App for Multiple Form Factors

- Setting Up a Backend for Sticks and Squares Using Azure Services

- Building a Real-Time Game

- Building a Calculator Using .NET MAUI Blazor

- Hot Dog or Not Hot Dog Using Machine Learning

Design, build and deploy robust web applications using ASP.NET 6, Angular 13, and Entity Framework Core

Key Features:

• The most up-to-date book that covers cutting-edge features released in ASP.NET Core 6 and Angular 13
• Create a production-ready Single-Page Application (SPA) or Progressive Web Application (PWA)
• Adopt a full-stack approach to handle data management, API documentation, Web APIs, end-to-end testing, security, and deployment

Book Description:

Every full-stack Ninja needs the tools to operate on frontend and backend application development. This web app development book takes a hands-on project-based approach to provide you with all the tools and techniques that web developers need to create, debug, and deploy efficient web applications using ASP.NET Core and Angular.

The fifth edition has been updated to cover advanced topics such as Minimal APIs, Web API with GraphQL, real-time updates with SignalR alongside new features in .NET 6 and Angular 13.

You begin by building a data model with Entity Framework Core, alongside utilizing the Entity Core Fluent API and EntityTypeConfiguration class. You'll learn how to fetch and display data and handle user input with Angular reactive forms and frontend and backend validators for maximum effect.

Later, you will perform advanced debugging and explore the unit testing features provided by xUnit.net (.NET 6) and Jasmine, as well as Karma for Angular. After adding authentication and authorization to your apps, you will explore Progressive Web Applications, learning about their technical requirements, testing processes, and how to convert a Standard Web Application to a PWA.

By the end of this web development book, you will understand how to tie together the frontend and backend to build and deploy secure and robust web applications.

What You Will Learn:

• Use the new Visual Studio Standalone TypeScript Angular template
• Implement and consume a Web API interface with ASP.NET Core
• Set up an SQL DB server using a local instance or a cloud datastore
• Perform C# and TypeScript debugging using Visual Studio 2022
• Create TDD and BDD unit tests using xUnit, Jasmine, and Karma
• Perform DBMS structured logging using providers such as SeriLog
• Deploy web apps to Azure App Service using IIS, Kestrel, and NGINX
• Learn to develop fast and flexible Web APIs using GraphQL
• Add real-time capabilities to Angular apps with ASP.NET Core SignalR

Who this book is for:

This book is for experienced ASP.NET developers who already possess some familiarity with ASP.NET Core and Angular and are looking to learn how to use them effectively together.

The fully documented code samples (also available on GitHub) and the step-by-step implementation tutorials make this book easy to follow.

ASP.NET MVC 5 contains a number of advances over previous versions, including the ability to define routes using C# attributes and the ability to override filters. The user experience of building MVC applications has also been substantially improved. The new, more tightly integrated, Visual Studio 2013 IDE has been created specifically with MVC application development in mind and provides a full suite of tools to improve development times and assist in reporting, debugging and deploying your code.

The popular Bootstrap JavaScript library has also now been included natively within MVC 5 providing you, the developer, with a wider range of multi-platform CSS and HTML5 options than ever before without the penalty of having to load-in third party libraries.

Get up and running with ASP.NET MVC 4, and learn how to build modern server-side web applications. This guide helps you understand how the framework performs, and shows you how to use various features to solve many real-world development scenarios you're likely to face. In the process, you'll learn how to work with HTML, JavaScript, the Entity Framework, and other web technologies.

You'll start by learning core concepts such as the Model-View-Controller architectural pattern, and then work your way toward advanced topics. The authors demonstrate ASP.NET MVC 4 best practices and techniques by building a sample online auction site (EBuy) throughout the book.

• Learn the similarities between ASP.NET MVC 4 and Web Forms
• Use Entity Framework to create and maintain an application database
• Create rich web applications, using jQuery for client-side development
• Incorporate AJAX techniques into your web applications
• Learn how to create and expose ASP.NET Web API services
• Deliver a rich and consistent experience for mobile devices
• Apply techniques for error handling, automated testing, and build automation
• Use various options to deploy your ASP.NET MVC 4 application

Active Server Pages Introduction. Brief overview of the ASP application paradigm with examples in VBScript. Also included is an introduction to Microsoft's Internet Information Server 5.0, the IIS object model, and the objects that it comprises. Object Reference. Each object is discussed in the following manner: descriptions, properties, collections, methods, events, accessory files/required DLLs, and remarks, including real-world uses, tips and tricks, and author's experience (where applicable). The objects--Application, Response, Request, Server, Session, ObjectContext, and ASPError, as well as ASP Directives, Global.ASA, and Server-Side Includes--all follow this paradigm. Component Reference. This section follows the same paradigm found in Object Reference. The discussion covers all of the additional components included with IIS, such as ActiveX Data Objects, the Ad Rotator, the Browser capabilities component, the File System Object, and more. Appendixes. Gives examples in one or two objects and components using Perl, REXX, and Python in ASP.

At a time when nearly every vertical, regardless of domain, seems to need software running in the cloud to make money, microservices provide the agility and drastically reduced time to market you require. This hands-on guide shows you how to create, test, compile, and deploy microservices, using the ASP.NET Core free and open-source framework. Along the way, you'll pick up good, practical habits for building powerful and robust services.

Building microservices isn't about learning a specific framework or programming language; it's about building applications that thrive in elastically scaling environments that don't have host affinity, and that can start and stop at a moment's notice. This practical book guides you through the process.

• Learn test-driven and API-first development concepts
• Communicate with other services by creating and consuming backing services such as databases and queues
• Build a microservice that depends on an external data source
• Learn about event sourcing, the event-centric approach to persistence
• Use ASP.NET Core to build web applications designed to thrive in the cloud
• Build a service that consumes, or is consumed by, other services
• Create services and applications that accept external configuration
• Explore ways to secure ASP.NET Core microservices and applications

The complete, pragmatic guide to building high-value solutions with ASP.NET Core

Programming ASP.NET Core is the definitive guide to practical web-based application development with Microsoft's new ASP.NET Core framework. Microsoft MVP Dino Esposito introduces proven techniques and well-crafted example code for solving real problems with ASP.NET Core. Step by step, he guides you through using all key ASP.NET Core technologies, including MVC for HTML generation, .NET Core, EF Core, ASP.NET Identity, dependency injection, and much more. Esposito thoroughly covers ASP.NET Core's cross-platform capabilities and what's changed from older ASP.NET versions, but he doesn't stop there: he offers a complete learning path for every developer who wants to build production solutions, including mobile-specific solutions.

Microsoft MVP Dino Esposito shows how to:

- Create new projects and understand their structure

- Set up and use the familiar MVC application model in ASP.NET Core

- Write controller class code to govern all stages of request processing

- Serve HTML from controllers, or directly via Razor Pages

- Master the Razor language for quickly defining the layout of HTML views

- Manage cross-cutting concerns such as global configuration data, error and exception handling, controller class design, and dependency injection

- Secure applications with user authentication and ASP.NET Core's policy-based user authorization API

- Design for efficient data access, and choose the right option for reading and writing data

- Build ASP.NET Core Web APIs that return JSON, XML, or other data

- Use data binding to programmatically update visual components with fresh information

- Build device-friendly web views for iOS and Android

- Explore the radically new ASP.NET Core runtime environment and Dependency Injection (DI) infrastructure