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Mastering Minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core

You're reading from   Mastering Minimal APIs in ASP.NET Core Build, test, and prototype web APIs quickly using .NET and C#

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803237824
Length 240 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Marco Minerva Marco Minerva
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Emanuele Bartolesi Emanuele Bartolesi
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Andrea Tosato Andrea Tosato
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Introduction
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Minimal APIs FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Exploring Minimal APIs and Their Advantages 4. Chapter 3: Working with Minimal APIs 5. Part 2: What’s New in .NET 6?
6. Chapter 4: Dependency Injection in a Minimal API Project 7. Chapter 5: Using Logging to Identify Errors 8. Chapter 6: Exploring Validation and Mapping 9. Chapter 7: Integration with the Data Access Layer 10. Part 3: Advanced Development and Microservices Concepts
11. Chapter 8: Adding Authentication and Authorization 12. Chapter 9: Leveraging Globalization and Localization 13. Chapter 10: Evaluating and Benchmarking the Performance of Minimal APIs 14. Index 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using Dapper

Dapper is an Object-Relational Mapper (ORM) or, to be more precise, a micro ORM. With Dapper, we can write SQL statements directly in .NET projects like we can do in SQL Server (or another database). One of the best advantages of using Dapper in a project is the performance, because it doesn’t translate queries from .NET objects and doesn’t add any layers between the application and the library to access the database. It extends the IDbConnection object and provides a lot of methods to query the database. This means we have to write queries that are compatible with the database provider.

It supports synchronous and asynchronous method executions. This is a list of the methods that Dapper adds to the IDbConnection interface:

  • Execute
  • Query
  • QueryFirst
  • QueryFirstOrDefault
  • QuerySingle
  • QuerySingleOrDefault
  • QueryMultiple

As we mentioned, it provides an async version for all these methods. You can find the right methods by...

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