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  • Getting Started: ASP.NET Core

    Learn how to get started with building web product 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 28m 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!
    10:09
    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
    08:33

    Meet Your Instructor

    Steve Smith

    Steve 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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