What this learning path covers
Module 1, Learning ASP.NET Core MVC Programming, introduces you to fundamentals of ASP.NET and how it fits in the ASP.Net ecosystem. Further, it helps you to set up the development environment. You will learn what an action method and a Controller does from the perspective of an overall ASP.NET MVC application. It explains various basic programming constructs(conditionals, loops and so on) with the examples using Razor view engine. You will also learn role of models and how to use javaScript and JQuery libraries for validation. Further, you will learn routing module and deployment of ASP.NET Core application. You will use HTTP-based services and learn how to implement them using the Web API. It explains the approaches to analyzing of performance and measures for improvement in various layers of your application and the security aspects of your application .
Module 2, ASP.NET Core and Angular 2, introduces the ASP.NET Core and Angular 2 frameworks. The reader will learn how to handle the HTTP request-response cycle and also how to configure the improved routing logic built upon the .NET Core pipeline. We will also explain how the client-side routing works in a SPA and what we need do to implement a viable routing pattern for our project using the PathLocationStrategy. You will learn to build proper, DBMS-based Data Model using Entity Framework Core and update the application code to make full usage of the EF Core entities defined in the data model. You will learn applying styles and the most relevant auth-related concepts for building a web application. It further expands the authentication and authorization topics introducing OpenIddict. It discusses account-related features such as user registration and edit account mechanism. Further, it describes the most common tasks to publish a potentially shippable web application onto a production server.
Module 3, ASP.NET Core 1.0 High Performance, shows you why you need to care about the performance of your software. We will highlight a few ways of manually monitoring performance and some helpful tools that you can use to measure statistics. It looks at some of the most frequent performance mistake and show you how to fix simple issues across a range of different application areas. It digs into the networking layer that underpins all web applications. You will learn how to batch your requests and optimizing database usage with aggregates or sampling, aiming to reduce the data and time required. You will learn caching and message queuing along with discussing the negatives of performance- enhancing tools. It will explain how to measure performance from an automation and Continuous Integration (CI) perspective. Lastly, it briefly sums up the lessons of the module and then has a look at some advanced topics that you may like to read more about.
