You're reading from ASP.NET Core 5 for Beginners Kick-start your ASP.NET web development journey with the help of step-by-step tutorials and examples

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800567184

Length 602 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Authors (5):

Jeffrey Chilberto

Ed Price

Andreas Helland

Vincent Maverick Durano

Ed Price

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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1 – Crawling

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to ASP.NET Core 5 FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Cross-Platform Setup

4. Chapter 3: Dependency Injection

5. Chapter 4: Razor View Engine

6. Chapter 5: Getting Started with Blazor

7. Section 2 – Walking

8. Chapter 6: Exploring the Blazor Web Framework

9. Chapter 7: APIs and Data Access

10. Chapter 8: Working with Identity in ASP.NET

11. Chapter 9: Getting Started with Containers

12. Section 3 – Running

13. Chapter 10: Deploying to AWS and Azure

14. Chapter 11: Browser and Visual Studio Debugging

15. Chapter 12: Integrating with CI/CD

16. Chapter 13: Developing Cloud-Native Apps

17. Assessments

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