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Learning ASP.NET Core 2.0

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788476638
Length 516 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Michel Bruchet Michel Bruchet
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Jason De Oliveira Jason De Oliveira
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Preface 1. What is ASP.NET Core 2.0? FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting Up the Environment 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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