Getting Started: ASP.NET Core

Learn how to get started with building web products with ASP.NET Core

About This Course

ASP.NET Core is a free, open-source, cross-platform framework designed for building web applications and services using .NET and C#. It is engineered for high performance and allows for rapid development of runtime components, APIs, compilers, and programming languages. In this course, you will learn how to get started with ASP.NET Core. We will begin with the installation process and tools, guiding you to launch your first ASP.NET Core web application quickly. After that, you will learn how to create server-rendered web applications using Razor Pages or MVC. By the end of this course, you will have all the foundations to start building basic ASP.NET Core applications in .NET using C#.

Course Curriculum

7h 20m 7 sections

Welcome

01:45 Free preview

What will you learn in this course?

01:56 Free preview

Who is the course for and prerequisites

01:08 Free preview

Hello ASP.NET Core!

10:31

Your First Minimal API

12:46

Your First Razor Page

09:59

Understanding ASP.NET Core

07:39

Handling Requests with Middleware

04:40

Mapping URLs with Routing

11:03

Creating a JSON API with minimal APIs

34:43

Model Binding and Validation with minimal APIs

33:15

Web API Best Practices

23:52

Organizing Minimal APIs

20:28

Injecting Dependent Services

14:41

Registering Services in the Application Host

21:01

Configuring Your ASPNET Core App

14:31

Documenting APIs with OpenAPI

15:30

Fetching and Saving Data with Entity Framework Core

28:05

Creating a Razor Pages App

11:43

Responding to Requests with Razor Pages

14:10

Model Binding and Validation with Razor Pages

22:31

Rendering HTML with Razor Views

26:06

Building Forms with Tag Helpers

22:39

Creating an ASPNET Core MVC App

20:32

Architecture Considerations

09:34

Additional Templates

05:17

Aspire Support

04:04

List Startup Services

05:44

Route Debugging

03:37

Integration Testing

14:07

Directory.Packages.props and Directory.Build.props

05:04

.editorConfig and dotnet format

06:51

Conclusion

01:45

Meet Your Instructor

Steve "ardalis" Smith

Steve "ardalis" Smith

Steve "ardalis" Smith is an entrepreneur and software developer with a passion for building quality software as effectively as possible. He provides mentoring and training workshops for teams with the desire to improve. Steve has been recognized as a Microsoft MVP for over 10 consecutive years, and is a frequent speaker at software developer conferences and events. He is the top contributor to the official documentation on ASP.NET Core and enjoys helpings others write maintainable, testable applications using Microsoft's developer tools.

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