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Learning ASP.NET Core 2.0

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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Learning ASP.NET Core 2.0

Setting Up the Environment

You have decided to learn about ASP.NET Core 2.0, the most advanced and efficient cross-platform web application framework on the market today. A very good choice! You are surely eager to start programming right away, but before we can begin, we must set up the required technical prerequisites and tools.

In this chapter, we are going to introduce Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition and Visual Studio Code, and then install either one of them as a development environment. Then, we are going to build a simple sample application based on the ASP.NET Core 2.0 Framework.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Visual Studio 2017 as a development environment
  • How to install Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition
  • Creating your first ASP.NET Core 2.0 application in Visual Studio and via the command line
  • Visual Studio Code as a development environment...

Visual Studio 2017 as a development environment

As a developer, you need an environment for your daily development tasks, and Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 is just that. It provides a very efficient and productive Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for creating new software projects and developing, debugging, and testing them. It will help you to build high-quality applications in a very quick and intuitive way. Many of its features have been built around common development tasks and how to streamline and optimize them within a single tool.

You can create web applications, web services, desktop applications, mobile applications, and many other types of applications not covered within this book.

Additionally, you can use a wide range of programming languages such as C#, Visual Basic, F#, JavaScript, and even Java.

There are different editions of Visual Studio 2017, each with...

How to install Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition

Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition is installed like any other Windows application.

Note however that you need administrator rights during the installation. These rights will not be required when developing with Visual Studio later.

For the Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition installation, you can choose between the following three different Visual Studio 2017 installation modes:

  • The Express Installation installs all of the components that are considered default components by Microsoft in an easy and quick way. If you need specific Visual Studio features not found in this list, then you need to use the Custom Installation.
  • The Custom Installation gives you full choice over every Visual Studio 2017 feature you can install. You may, for instance, install complementary features such as Visual C++, F#, SQL Server Data Tools,...

Visual Studio Code as a development environment

Visual Studio Code is a lightweight and powerful cross-platform development environment for Windows, Linux, and macOS.

You can use a wide range of programming languages such as JavaScript, TypeScript, and Node.js as well as C++, C#, Python, PHP, Go, and the .NET Core and Unity runtimes via language and runtime extensions.

It comes with a streamlined, clean, and very efficient user interface. There is a file and folder explorer on the left and a source code editor on the right, showing the contents of files you have opened and are currently working on:

The user interface consists of the following areas:

  • Activity bar: Provides several different views and additional context-specific indicators such as outgoing code changes when Git is enabled.
  • Sidebar: Contains a file and folder explorer for working on your projects.
  • Editor groups...

How to install Visual Studio Code on Linux

We are now going to explain how easy and fast it is to install Visual Studio Code on Linux. One of the most popular Linux distributions, Ubuntu 16.04, will serve as an example.

If you do not have a physical or virtual installation of Linux Ubuntu available, you can easily install it in Azure for trying out Visual Studio Code and understanding the various ASP.NET Core 2.0 examples, and then connect via Microsoft Remote Desktop app to it.

In this case, select the Linux Ubuntu 16.04 LTS image from the Azure Marketplace and create a new Linux Ubuntu VM in Azure. Leave all of the default options, then configure it to allow remote desktop connections (install compatible desktop, install xrdp, open port 3389, and more):

Let's see how to install Visual Studio Code on Linux Ubuntu:

  1. First, download the Linux Ubuntu install .deb package...

Summary

In this chapter, you have learned how to set up your development environment to be able to work with ASP.NET Core 2.0. You have seen how to install either Visual Studio 2017 or Visual Studio Code.

You then created your first ASP.NET Core 2.0 web application in both development environments, and you have even built a project in Linux to showcase the cross-platform capabilities.

In the next chapter, we will talk about how to set up a continuous integration pipeline by using Visual Studio Team Services, including work items and Git branches, as well as build and release pipelines.

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Key benefits

  • ? Get to grips with the new features and APIs introduced in ASP.NET Core 2.0
  • ? Leverage the MVC framework and Entity Framework Core 2 to build efficient applications
  • ? Learn to deploy your web applications in new environments such as the cloud and Docker

Description

The ability to develop web applications that are highly efficient but also easy to maintain has become imperative to many businesses. ASP.NET Core 2.0 is an open source framework from Microsoft, which makes it easy to build cross-platform web applications that are modern and dynamic. This book will take you through all of the essential concepts in ASP.NET Core 2.0, so you can learn how to build powerful web applications. The book starts with a brief introduction to the ASP.NET Core framework and the improvements made in the latest release, ASP.NET Core 2.0. You will then build, test, and debug your first web application very quickly. Once you understand the basic structure of ASP.NET Core 2.0 web applications, you'll dive deeper into more complex concepts and scenarios. Moving on, we'll explain how to take advantage of widely used frameworks such as Model View Controller and Entity Framework Core 2 and you'll learn how to secure your applications. Finally, we'll show you how to deploy and monitor your applications using Azure, AWS, and Docker. After reading the book, you'll be able to develop efficient and robust web applications in ASP.NET Core 2.0 that have high levels of customer satisfaction and adoption.

Who is this book for?

This book is for developers who would like to build modern web applications with ASP.NET Core 2.0. No prior knowledge of ASP.NET or .NET Core is required. However, basic programming knowledge is assumed. Additionally, previous Visual Studio experience will be helpful but is not required, since detailed instructions will guide through the samples of the book.This book can also help people, who work in infrastructure engineering and operations, to monitor and diagnose problems during the runtime of ASP.NET Core 2.0 web applications.

What you will learn

  • • Set up your development environment using Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio Code
  • • Create a fully automated continuous delivery pipeline using Visual Studio Team Services
  • • Get to know the basic and advanced concepts of ASP.NET Core 2.0 with detailed examples
  • • Build an MVC web application and use Entity Framework Core 2 to access data
  • • Add Web APIs to your web applications using RPC, REST, and HATEOAS
  • • Authenticate and authorize users with built-in ASP.NET Core 2.0 features
  • • Use Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Docker to deploy and monitor your applications

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What is ASP.NET Core 2.0? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Setting Up the Environment Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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Basic Concepts of ASP.NET Core 2.0 - Part 1 Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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Creating MVC Applications Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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Nico. Jan 10, 2018
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A perfect book to learn ASP.NET Core whether you are beginner or a confirmed developper, The choice to us real world example is perfect for professionnals .I highly recommend this reading.
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Learning ASP.NET Core 2.0 is a great book. It is both simple and detailed. The point of this book is that it does not just cover ASP.NET Core 2.0 framework but it also provides insight into how to manage the life cycle of an application in a Microsoft environment. The implementation of a continuous integration pipeline is thus described step by step and will allow you to start efficiently with VSTS and Visual Studio.I appreciated how the authors began by describing the framework's concepts and its history to end up with a functional application addressing many ASP.NET Core features that serves as a guide throughout the book.
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Alvin Ashcraft Dec 17, 2017
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Disclosure: I was a technical reviewer of this book and worked with Packt to provide feedback on the code and technical aspects of the text.I have reviewed several books this year centering around .NET Core. I can honestly say that I felt this book was the most engaging read of them all. The authors do a very good job of writing in a way that makes the reader feel as if they are part of a conversation about ASP.NET Core. Each topic is introduced in a fun and interactive manner. Throughout the course of the book, you'll learn to build a Tic-Tac-Toe game with ASP.NET Core and Entity Framework Core. It is much easier to read this book cover-to-cover than the average programming reference book.I would recommend this book to any developer who wants to get up and running with ASP.NET Core 2.0. Whether you have a background in ASP.NET or not, you will learn everything you need here. You'll get everything you need to either build a simple website or start your next large-scale projects at work. Enterprises need to think about security, scalability, and deployment concerns. All of these topics are covered in depth in the latter half of Learning ASP.NET Core 2.0. Other topics covered are MVC (the Model-View-Controller pattern), Web API, hosting and monitoring.
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Consultant / Formateur sur la plateforme de développement Microsoft .NET depuis plus de 15 ans, je lis constamment des ouvrages pour améliorer mes connaissances, avoir différents points de vus sur des solutions ou des concepts ...Mon avis sur ce livre est le suivant : si vous souhaitez apprendre à concevoir et développer des applications Web avec ASP .NET Core 2.0, alors ce livre est fait pour vous. Je dispense des formations et recommande cet ouvrage à mes stagiaires. Pourquoi ? - Il est écrit en anglais, mais reste très compréhensible par toute personne ayant des bases en anglais - Il aborde beaucoup de thèmes techniques de manière progressive et pédagogique : connaissances techniques dans un premier temps. Puis mise en oeuvre, pas à pas, de manière concrète par un exemple ou un cas pratique. Tout au long du livre, vous créez une application Web : le jeu de morpions (tic tac toe).Je recommande ce livre et merci aux auteurs de l'avoir écrit. J'ai déjà co-écrit un livre sur le développement d'applications Web avec ASP .NET 4.0 et je sais le travail que demande l'écriture d'un tel ouvrage.
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The book is an excellent introduction to ASP.Net core V2.0It leads the reader to understand all basic (and some advanced) aspects of this technology that allows writing quickly web applications and is much simpler than the standard .NET framework.
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