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You're reading from Learning ASP.NET Core 2.0 Build modern web apps with ASP.NET Core 2.0, MVC, and EF Core 2

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788476638

Length 516 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Tools

ASP.NET

Concepts

Server Side Web Development

Authors (2):

Michel Bruchet

Jason De Oliveira

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface

1. What is ASP.NET Core 2.0?

2. Setting Up the Environment FREE CHAPTER

3. Creating a Continuous Integration Pipeline in VSTS

4. Basic Concepts of ASP.NET Core 2.0 - Part 1

5. Basic Concepts of ASP.NET Core 2.0 - Part 2

6. Creating MVC Applications

7. Creating Web API Applications

8. Accessing Data using Entity Framework Core 2

9. Securing ASP.NET Core 2.0 Applications

10. Hosting and Deploying ASP.NET Core 2.0 Applications

11. Managing and Supervising ASP.NET Core 2.0 Applications

Applying Web API concepts and best practices

ASP.NET Core 2.0 combines the best features of ASP.NET MVC and Web APIs together into a single framework. This makes complete sense, since they provide many similar functionalities.

Before this merger, developers had to rewrite code when they needed to expose data in different formats via MVC and Web APIs. They had to work with multiple frameworks and concepts at the same time. Fortunately, this entire process has been completely streamlined in ASP.NET Core 2.0, as you will see during this chapter.

The following diagram illustrates how client HTTP requests are handled by ASP.NET Core 2.0 concerning Web APIs and MVC:

Web APIs normally use either JSON or XML as a response format. JSON would be the preferred format, since it has become quasi-standard on the market and everybody is using it due to its simplicity and efficiency.

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Authors (2)

Michel Bruchet

Michel Bruchet works as an application architect for MEGA International, a software company in Paris (France), providing modeling tools for business transformation, enterprise architecture, and enterprise governance, risk, and compliance management. He has more than 20 years of experience as a senior architect, working on complex projects in IT and development departments. Michel has published several publications on the internet (SlideShare, LinkedIn, and more). He has worked for big companies in France, such as Sanofi, Pierre et Vacances – Center Parcs, Banque de France, BPCE, and BNP. He is also the main driving force and mastermind behind the Ingenius solution, which provides efficient e-business solutions to customers around the world.

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Jason De Oliveira

Jason De Oliveira works as a CTO for MEGA International, a software company in Paris (France), providing modeling tools for business transformation, enterprise architecture, and enterprise governance, risk, and compliance management. He is an experienced manager and senior solutions architect, with high skills in software architecture and enterprise architecture. He loves sharing his knowledge and experience via his blog, speaking at conferences, writing technical books, writing articles in the technical press, giving software courses as MCT, and coaching co-workers in his company. He frequently collaborates with Microsoft and can often be found at the Microsoft Technology Center (MTC) in Paris. Microsoft has awarded him for more than 6 years with the Microsoft® Most Valuable Professional (MVP C#/.NET) award for his numerous contributions to the Microsoft community. Microsoft seeks to recognize the best and brightest from technology communities around the world with the MVP Award. These exceptional and highly respected individuals come from more than 90 countries, serving their local online and offline communities and having an impact worldwide. Feel free to contact him via his blog if you need any technical assistance or want to talk about technical subjects. Jason has worked on the following books: .NET 4.5 Expert Programming Cookbook (English) WCF 4.5 Multi-tier Services Development with LINQ to Entities (English) .NET 4.5 Parallel Extensions Cookbook (English) WCF Multi-layer Services Development with Entity Framework (English) Visual Studio 2013: Concevoir, développer et gérer des projets Web, les gérer avec TFS 2013 (French)

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