Beginning ASP.NET Core | Course online

This course will give your ASP.NET Core development a solid start - in the right direction! It picks out and explains the things you need to know in order to use the framework effectively and develop testable solutions.

While the course has a focus on practical skills, it also takes the time to explain important underlying concepts, including how HTTP works, the MVC design pattern, the TDD workflow and dependency  inversion. 

In this course we use the latest ASP.NET Core version 5 on the .NET 5 platform. Even if you are not using .NET 5 today, the course is still relevant because most of the things are the same for ASP.NET Core 2.x and 3.x.

Target audience and prerequisites

.NET Developers who want to learn how to develop web applications using ASP.NET Core. Good knowledge of programming in C# and the .NET platform. Also requires some knowledge of HTML and CSS, and perhaps some experience with JavaScript.

What you will learn

Web fundamentals

•  HTTP / HTTPS
• Request & Response headers
• Proxy & Reverse Proxy

ASP.NET Core fundamentals

• .NET Core vs .NET 5
• Project structure
• Kestrel & Http.sys
• IIS & IIS Express

The request pipeline

• Middlewares
• HTTP Context

The MVC pattern

• Controllers
• Action methods
• Models
• Views
• Passing data to a view
• ViewBag and ViewData

TDD and tests

• The TDD flow
• xUnit
• Writing unit tests
• Testing action methods
• Test Explorer

Routes

• Route templates
• Endpoint routing
• Error handling
• IActionResult
• Route constraints

Dependency Inversion

• Mocks and stubs
• Mocking libraries
• DI-Containers
• Dependency Injection

Razor views

• HTML Encoding
• ViewStart
• Layouts
• Sections

Tag Helpers

• Using tag helpers

Advanced views

• Partial views
• View components

Forms

• Get vs Post
• Form submission flow
• Parameter binding
• Model binding

Database

• SQL Server
• Entity Framework Core
• Database vs code first
• Migrations
• Repository Pattern
• Scaffolding

Validation

• Client and serverside validation

Building APIs

• REST
• API Controllers
• Attribute routing
• Swagger and OpenAPI

Security

• SQL Injection
• XSS
• CSRF