ASP.NET Core 8 Training Overview
This ASP.NET Core 8 training course teaches attendees how to design and build high-performance, secure, well-architected REST APIs that various clients can consume. This course focuses specifically on APIs and does not include coverage of web UI topics such as Views and Razor Pages. An introduction to Blazor is included, but it is not covered in-depth.
Location and Pricing
Accelebrate offers instructor-led enterprise training for groups of 3 or more online or at your site. Most Accelebrate classes can be flexibly scheduled for your group, including delivery in half-day segments across a week or set of weeks. To receive a customized proposal and price quote for private corporate training on-site or online, please contact us.
In addition, some courses are available as live, instructor-led training from one of our partners.
Objectives
- Understand the goals and benefits of ASP.NET Core 8.0
- Learn to make good decisions about application architecture and data access technology
- Use ASP.NET’s routing system to achieve a REST-style architecture
- Gain experience building a service that makes data available via a modern web API
- Learn best practices for employing unit testing, logging, and error handling
- Understand different authentication choices for securing a web API
- Get an introduction to Blazor and gRPC
- Understand the different cross-platform deployment options available including via Docker containers
Prerequisites
- Previous experience developing web-based applications with C#
- Some familiarity with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
Outline
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Introduction
- Evolution of .NET and .NET Core
- .NET SKDs and Runtimes
- Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code
.NET 6.0 SDK
- Installation
- Version Management
- Command-Line Interface (CLI)
Modern C# and What's New in C# 12.0
- Multi-paradigm C#
- Features from Functional Programming
- Evolution of Nullability in .NET
Immutability
- Designing for Concurrency
- Deferred Execution
ASP.NET Core Application Architecture
- NuGet Packages
- Application Startup
- Hosting Environments
- Middleware and the Request Pipeline
- Services and Dependency Injection
Application Configuration
- Configuration Providers and Sources
- Configuration API
- Options Pattern
- HTTPS and HTTP/2
Request Routing
- RESTful Services
- Endpoint Routing
- Route Templates
- Route Constraints
- Route Template Precedence
- Attribute-Based Routing
Models
- Persistence Ignorance
- Dependency Inversion
- Asynchronous Data Access
- Object-Relational Mapping
- Entity Framework Core
- Dapper ORM
Controllers
- Responsibilities
- Requirements and Conventions
- Dependencies
- Action Results
- ApiController Attribute
Web APIs
- API Controllers
- OpenAPI / Swagger
- Testing APIs
- Content Negotiation
- CRUD Operations
- Patch Requests
- Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)
Data Validation
- Introduction
- Data Annotations
- Model Binding
Error Handling
- Best Practices
- HTTP Error Status Codes
- Developer Exception Page
Logging
- Configuration
- ILogger
- Serilog and Seq
Testing
- Unit Testing
- xUnit
- Testing Controllers
- Integration Testing
Security
- Authentication
- ASP.NET Identity
- Bearer Tokens
- Authorization
Web API Authentication
- OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect
- Secrets Management
Remote Procedure Calls (gRPC)
- Introduction
- Protobuf
- Server
- Client
- Limitations
Deployment
- dotnet publish
- Kestrel
- IIS
- Docker
Conclusion
Training Materials
All ASP.NET Core training students receive comprehensive courseware.
Software Requirements
- .NET 8.0 SDK
- Visual Studio 2022 (17.8 or later), VS Code, or Rider
- Lab file bundle provided with the course
