ASP.NET Core: Cloud-ready, Enterprise Web Application Development by James Singleton

Key FeaturesGet first-principle coverage of the latest ASP.NET Core MVCFind out how to bring together the capabilities and features of both Angular 2 and ASP.NET CoreDiscover common areas you might encounter performance problems with and areas you dont need to worry aboutBook DescriptionASP.NET Core is the new, open source, and cross-platform, web-application framework from Microsoft. ASP.NET Core MVC helps you build robust web applications using the Model-View-Controller design. This guide will help you in building applications that can be deployed on non-Windows platforms such as Linux.Starting with an overview of the MVC pattern, you will quickly dive into the aspects that you need to know to get started with ASP.NET. You will learn about the core architecture of model, view, and control. Integrating your application with Bootstrap, validating user input, interacting with databases, and deploying your application are some of the things that you will learn to execute with this fast-paced guide. You will test your knowledge as you build a fully working sample application using the skills youve learned throughout the book.Moving forward, this guide will teach you to combine the impressive capabilities of ASP.NET Core and Angular 2. Not only will you learn how Angular 2 can complement your .NET skills and toolkit, youll also learn everything you need to build a complete, dynamic single-page application. Find out how to get your data model in place and manage an API, before styling and designing your frontend for an exceptional user experience. You will find out how to optimize your application for SEO, identify and secure vulnerabilities, and how to successfully deploy and maintain your application. From here, you will delve into the latest frameworks and software design patterns to improve your application performance.The course offers premium, highly practical content on the recently released ASP.NET Core, and includes material from the following Packt books: Learning ASP.NET Core MVC Programming, ASP.NET Core and Angular 2, and ASP.NET Core 1.0 High Performance.What you will learnGet to know the concepts of ASP.NET MVCCreate a Controller with action methodsBuild a view using several features of the Razor View engineConstruct a Model for ASP.NET Core MVC applicationFind out how the features of ASP.NET Core and Angular 2 perfectly complement each otherHandle requests and actions using server-side and client-side RoutingCreate a Data Model using Entity Framework CoreLearn how to use Angular 2 components and master directivesImprove performance at the network level and I/O level, and how to optimize the application as a wholeMonitor performance as part of Continuous Integration and regression testingAbout the AuthorMugilan T. S. Ragupathi has been working on building web-based applications using Microsoft technologies for more than a decade. He can be seen at csharp subreddit / Stack Overflow. He has written free micro eBooks, The 7 Most Popular Recipes of jQuery with ASP.NET Web Forms and Value & Reference types in C#. His book has received a good response; you can see the proof from one of his readers on twitter. He is also an active contributor in Quora to the ASP.NET community. He likes to help readers with queries about ASP.NET.Valerio De Sanctis is a skilled IT professional with more than 12 years experience in lead programming, web-based development, and project management using ASP.NET, PHP, and Java. He previously held senior positions at a range of financial and insurance companies, most recently serving as Chief Technology Officer and Chief Operating Officer at a leading after-sales and IT service provider for many top-tier life and non-life insurance groups. During the course of his career Valerio De Sanctis helped many private organizations to implement and maintain .NET based solutions, working side by side with many IT industry experts and leading several frontend, backend, and UX development teams. He designed the architecture (and actively oversaw the development) of a wide number of corporate-level web application projects for high-profile clients, customers, and partners including London Stock Exchange Group, Zurich Insurance Group, Allianz, Generali, Harmonie Mutuelle, Honda Motor, FCA Group, Luxottica, ANSA, Saipem, ENI, Enel, Terna, Banzai Media, Virgilio.it, Repubblica.it, and Corriere.it. He is an active member of the Stack Exchange Network, providing advice and tips for .NET-, JavaScript-, HTML5- and web-related topics on the StackOverflow, ServerFault, and SuperUser communities.James Singleton is a British software developer, engineer, and entrepreneur, who has been writing code since the days of the BBC Micro. His formal training is in electrical and electronic engineering, yet he has worked professionally in .NET software development for nearly a decade. He is active in the London start-up community and helps organize Cleanweb London events for environmentally conscious technologists. He runs Cleanweb Jobs, which aims to help get developers, engineers, managers, and data scientists into roles that can help tackle climate change and other environmental problems. He also does public speaking, and he has presented talks at many local user groups, including at the Hacker News London meet-up. James holds a first-class degree (with honors) in electronic engineering with computing, and he has designed and built his own basic microprocessor on an FPGA along with a custom instruction set to run on it. He is also a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) ambassador, who encourages young people to study these fields. James contributes to and is influenced by many open source projects, and regularly uses alternative technologies, such as Python, Ruby, and Linux. He is enthusiastic about the direction that Microsoft is taking .NET in and its embracing of open source practices. He is particularly interested in hardware, environmental, and digital rights projects and is keen on security, compression, and algorithms. When not hacking on code, or writing for books and magazines. James has gained varied skills from working in many diverse industries and roles, from high-performance stock exchanges to video encoding systems. He has worked as a business analyst, consultant, tester, developer, and technical architect. He has a wide range of knowledge, gained from big corporates to startups, and a lot of places in between. Table of ContentsIntroduction to ASP.NET CoreSetting Up the EnvironmentControllersViewsModelsValidationRoutingBeautifying ASP.NET MVC Applications with BootstrapDeployment of ASP.NET Core ApplicationBuilding HTTP-based Web Services Using ASP.NET Web APIImproving Performance of an ASP.NET Core ApplicationASP.NET Core IdentityGetting ReadyASP.NET Controllers and Server-Side RoutesAngular 2 Components and Client-Side RoutingThe Data ModelPersisting ChangesApplying StylesAuthentication and AuthorizationThird-Party Authentication and External ProvidersUser Registration and Account EditFinalization and DeploymentWhy Performance Is a FeatureMeasuring Performance BottlenecksFixing Common Performance ProblemsAddressing Network PerformanceOptimizing I/O PerformanceUnderstanding Code Execution and Asynchronous OperationsLearning Caching and Message QueuingThe Downsides of Performance-Enhancing ToolsMonitoring Performance RegressionsThe Way Ahead