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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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Published in Dec 2023
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ISBN-13 9781837632121
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Jonathan "JD" Danylko is an award-winning, full-stack ASP.NET architect. He's used ASP.NET as his primary way to build websites since 2002 and before that, Classic ASP.nJonathan contributes to his blog (DanylkoWeb) on a weekly basis, has built a custom CMS, is a founder of Tuxboard (an open-source ASP.NET dashboard library), has been on various podcasts, and guest posted on the C# Advent Calendar for 6 years. Jonathan has worked in various industries for small, medium, and Fortune 100 companies, but currently works as an Architect at Insight Enterprise. The best way to contact Jonathan is through GitHub, LinkedIn, Twitter, email, or through the website.
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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

Testing Web APIs

Once we have our APIs designed and created, we need a way to test them in our IDE and our integration tests. Luckily, Visual Studio has added the new Endpoints Explorer.

In this section, we’ll learn two ways to test our APIs. One way is through our development environment using Visual Studio. The second way we’ll test our API is through integration tests. If we have a CI/CD pipeline (which we should from Chapter 2), these will automatically run to confirm our APIs work as expected.

Visual Studio Endpoints Explorer

Historically, developers using Visual Studio had to run a separate tool to test their APIs, but with the latest version of .NET 8, the Visual Studio team added a new panel called Endpoints Explorer:

Figure 9.4 – Endpoints Explorer

Figure 9.4 – Endpoints Explorer

If we have a collection of APIs defined in the Program.cs file, our collection will appear as follows:

Figure 9.5 – Collection of APIs in Endpoints Explorer

Figure 9.5 – Collection of APIs...

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