You're reading from C# 11 and .NET 7 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals Start building websites and services with ASP.NET Core 7, Blazor, and EF Core 7

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803237800

Length 818 pages

Edition 7th Edition

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.NET

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Server Side Web Development

Author (1):

Mark J. Price

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Table of Contents (19) 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 Websites Using the Model-View-Controller Pattern

15. Building and Consuming Web Services

16. Building User Interfaces Using Blazor

17. Epilogue

18. Index

Building web services using Minimal APIs

For .NET 6, Microsoft put a lot of effort into adding new features to the C# 10 language and simplifying the ASP.NET Core libraries to enable the creation of web services using Minimal APIs. Minimal APIs are designed to enable the creation of HTTP APIs with minimum lines of code.

Minimal APIs are covered in more detail in my companion book, Apps and Services with .NET 7, in Chapter 9, Building and Securing Web Services with Minimal APIs.

You might remember the weather forecast service that is provided in the Web API project template. It shows the use of a controller class to return a five-day weather forecast using faked data. We will now recreate that weather service using Minimal APIs.

It will listen on port 5003 and only GET requests are allowed:

Use your preferred code editor to open the PracticalApps solution/workspace and then add a new project, as defined in the following list:
- Project template...