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ASP.NET 8 Best Practices

You're reading from   ASP.NET 8 Best Practices Explore techniques, patterns, and practices to develop effective large-scale .NET web apps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837632121
Length 256 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Taking Control with Source Control 2. Chapter 2: CI/CD – Building Quality Software Automatically FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Best Approaches for Middleware 4. Chapter 4: Applying Security from the Start 5. Chapter 5: Optimizing Data Access with Entity Framework Core 6. Chapter 6: Best Practices with Web User Interfaces 7. Chapter 7: Testing Your Code 8. Chapter 8: Catching Exceptions with Exception Handling 9. Chapter 9: Creating Better Web APIs 10. Chapter 10: Push Your Application with Performance 11. Chapter 11: Appendix 12. Index 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using Middleware

Middleware is software you configure at the beginning of your application when the application starts. It’s important to note that the Middleware you add should be based on your application’s requirements. It’s not necessary to add every single component. Streamlining your Middleware pipeline is important, which we’ll discuss shortly.

It’s been said that the difference between a library and a framework is that a library is the code you call from your application, whereas a framework is structured a certain way to call your code. This is what Middleware has evolved into from earlier versions of ASP.NET.

In this section, we’ll present the common flow of a Middleware pipeline and how to control what happens in a middleware component. By the end of this section, you’ll understand how a middleware pipeline works.

Understanding the Middleware Pipeline

When your web application starts, Middleware is called and...

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