C# Intermediate: Developing ASP.Net Core 7.0 MVC Web Applications

Course Overview

Module 1: Overview of .Net (core) & ASP.Net

• Explore the variety of technologies available in the Microsoft web stack.
• Explore different programming models available for developers in ASP.NET.
• Role of ASP.NET Core MVC in the web technologies stack, and how to use ASP.NET Core MVC to build web applications.
• Differences between MVC models, MVC controllers, and MVC views.

Module 2: Review of C# and New Features

• Design and implement a basic class
• New features
• Raw strings
• Top-level statements
• Global usings
• Tuples
• Record type specifiers
• Deconstruction
• Null operators & null reference types
• Async/Await

Module 3: Designing ASP.NET Core MVC Web Applications

Lessons

• Planning in the Project Design Phase
• Designing ASP.NET Core MVC Web Applications: Plan the overall architecture of an ASP.NET Core MVC web application and consider aspects such as state management.
• Designing Models, Controllers and Views: Plan the models, controllers, and views that are required to implement a given set of functional requirements.

Module 4: Configure Middleware and Services in ASP.NET Core

• Configuring Middleware: Use existing middleware to set up an ASP.NET Core application.
• Create your own middleware and use it to define custom behavior.
• Understand the basic principles behind Dependency Injection, and how it is used in ASP.NET Core.
• Configuring Services: Learn how to create a custom service, configure its scope, and inject it to both middleware and ASP.NET Core MVC controllers.

Module 5: Developing Controllers

• Writing Controllers and Actions
• Add a controller to a web application that responds to user actions that are specified in the project design.
• Configuring Routes
• Add routes to the ASP.NET Core routing engine and ensure that URLs are user-friendly in an MVC web application.

Module 6: Developing Views

• Creating Views with Razor Syntax: Create an MVC view and add Razor markup to it to display data to users.
• Using HTML Helpers and Tag Helpers: Use HTML helpers and tag helpers in a view.
• Reusing Code in Views: Reuse Razor markup in multiple locations throughout an application.

Module 7: Using Layouts, CSS and JavaScript in ASP.NET Core MVC

• Using Layouts: Apply a consistent layout to ASP.NET Core MVC applications.
• Using CSS and JavaScript: Add JavaScript code to your web application.

Module 8: Developing Models

• Creating MVC Models: Add a model to an MVC application and write code in it to implement the business logic.
• Working with Forms
• Use display and edit data annotations.
• Validating user input server and client-side with data annotations.

Module 9: Using Entity Framework Core in ASP.NET Core

• Introduction to Entity Framework Core
• Working with Entity Framework Core
• Connect an application to a database to access and store data.
• Use Entity Framework Core to connect to Microsoft SQL Server

Module 10: Testing and Troubleshooting

• Run unit tests against the Model–View–Controller (MVC) components, such as model classes and controllers, and locate potential bugs.
• Build a Microsoft ASP.NET Core MVC application that handles exceptions smoothly and robustly.
• Run logging providers that benefit your applications and run them by using a common logging API.
• Testing MVC Applications
• Implementing an Exception Handling Strategy
• Logging MVC Applications

Module 11: Managing Security

• Add basic authentication to your application.
• Configure Microsoft ASP.NET Core Identity.
• Add basic authorization to your application.
• Know how security exploits work and how to better defend against them.
• Authentication in ASP.NET Core
• Authorization in ASP.NET Core

Module 12: Performance and Communication

• Managing State: Use state management technologies to improve the client experience, by providing a consistent experience for the user.
• Implement two-way communication by using SignalR, allowing the server to notify the client when important events occur.

Module 13: Implementing Web APIs

• Introducing Web APIs
• Developing a Web API
• Create services by using ASP.NET Core Web API.
• Call a Web API from server-side code and jQuery.

Module 14: Hosting and Deployment

• On-premise hosting and deployment
• How to Host and Deploy an ASP.NET Core MVC application on IIS.

Module 15 Accessing Remote Data

• Accessing Data Across the Web
• Send data to and receive data from restful services and other remote data sources.

Module 16: Overview of Blazor

Module 17: Improving Application Performance and Responsiveness

• Implementing Multitasking: Use the async/await to implement multitasking.
• Performing Operations Asynchronously

Module 18: Creating Reusable Types and Assemblies

• Examining Object Metadata
• Use reflection to inspect and execute assemblies.
• Create and consume custom attributes.

Prerequisites

This course is intended for experienced professional web developers who use Microsoft Visual Studio in an individual-based or team-based, small-sized to large development environment. Candidates for this course are interested in developing advanced web applications and want to manage the rendered HTML comprehensively. They want to create websites that separate the user interface, data access, and application logic. This course is NOT for non or new developers.

Students should have incoming practical skills in the below technologies:

• Programming in C# | Creating Apps in C# and .Net Core / Latest Edition 
• Introduction to HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• Visual Studio 2022 (or later).
• Querying and manipulating database data.
• Basic XML and JSON data structures.