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Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800209442

Length 610 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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.NET

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Application Development

Authors (5):

Ravindra Akella

Suneel Kumar Kunani

Bhupesh Guptha Muthiyalu

Arun Kumar Tamirisa

Rishabh Verma

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Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Architecting an Enterprise Application and its Fundamentals

2. Chapter 1: Designing and Architecting the Enterprise Application FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Introducing .NET 5 Core and Standard

4. Chapter 3: Introducing C# 9

5. Section 2: Cross-Cutting Concerns

6. Chapter 4: Threading and Asynchronous Operations

7. Chapter 5: Dependency Injection in .NET

8. Chapter 6: Configuration in .NET Core

9. Chapter 7: Logging in .NET 5

10. Chapter 8: Understanding Caching

11. Section 3: Developing Your Enterprise Application

12. Chapter 9: Working with Data in .NET 5

13. Chapter 10: Creating an ASP.NET Core 5 Web API

14. Chapter 11: Creating an ASP.NET Core 5 Web Application

15. Section 4: Security

16. Chapter 12: Understanding Authentication

17. Chapter 13: Understanding Authorization

18. Section 5: Health Checks, Unit Testing, Deployment, and Diagnostics

19. Chapter 14: Health and Diagnostics

20. Chapter 15: Testing

21. Chapter 16: Deploying the Applications in Azure

22. Assessments

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The response from our APIs may or may not look like our domain models. Instead, their structure can resemble the fields that the UI or Views need to bind. Hence, it is recommended to create a separate set of POCO classes that integrates with our UI. These POCOs are known as Data Transfer Objects (DTOs).

In this section, we will implement our DTOs, domain logic integrating with the data layer, and integrate the cache services discussed in Chapter 8, Understanding Caching, using the Cache-Aside pattern, and then finally the required RESTful APIs using controllers and actions. Along the way, we will use HTTP Client factory for our service-to-service communication, and the AutoMapper library for mapping domain models to DTOs.

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