You're reading from C# 12 and .NET 8 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals Start building websites and services with ASP.NET Core 8, Blazor, and EF Core 8

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781837635870

Length 828 pages

Edition 8th Edition

Languages

Tools

.NET

Concepts

Server Side Web Development

Author (1):

Mark J. Price

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Hello, C#! Welcome, .NET!

2. Speaking C# FREE CHAPTER

3. Controlling Flow, Converting Types, and Handling Exceptions

4. Writing, Debugging, and Testing Functions

5. Building Your Own Types with Object-Oriented Programming

6. Implementing Interfaces and Inheriting Classes

7. Packaging and Distributing .NET Types

8. Working with Common .NET Types

9. Working with Files, Streams, and Serialization

10. Working with Data Using Entity Framework Core

11. Querying and Manipulating Data Using LINQ

12. Introducing Web Development Using ASP.NET Core

13. Building Websites Using ASP.NET Core Razor Pages

14. Building and Consuming Web Services

15. Building User Interfaces Using Blazor

16. Epilogue

17. Index

Creating a web service for the Northwind database

Unlike MVC controllers, Web API controllers do not call Razor views to return HTML responses for website visitors to see in browsers. Instead, they use content negotiation with the client application that made the HTTP request to return data in formats such as XML, JSON, or X-WWW-FORM-URLENCODED in their HTTP response, which looks like the following:

firstName=Mark&lastName=Price&jobtitle=Author

The client application must then deserialize the data from the negotiated format. The most used format for modern web services is JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) because it is compact and works natively with JavaScript in a browser when building Single-Page Applications (SPAs) with client-side technologies like Angular, React, and Vue.

We will reference the Entity Framework Core entity data model for the Northwind database that you created in Chapter 12, Introducing Web Development Using ASP.NET Core: