ASP.NET Core: use this framework to program MVC applications

1 Components of the .NET architecture

Overview of the components of the .NET architecture and the main features of the new ASP .NET Core development platform.

• .NET Framework vs .NET (aka .NET Core) vs .NET standard
• History of ASP.NET / ASP.NET Core
• Development tools

2 ASP.NET Core features

• Overview of ASP.NET Core features:
• Routing
• Data binding
• Model validation
• Dependency injection
• Filters
• Areas
• Razor display engine
• Tag and HTML helpers
• ViewComponents
• Web API

3 ASP.NET Core components

• Understand the different components of an ASP.NET Core application.
• Startup" class
• Dependency injection (services)
• Middleware
• Host
• Server
• Configuration
• Environment
• Logging
• Routing
• Error handling
• Content root and Web root

4 Designing an ASP.NET Core model-view-controller (MVC) application

• Structure of an ASP.NET Core project with .NET 8 and Visual Studio 2022
• Default configuration
• Role of the model, view and controller
• Controller and action types
• Routing and endpoint system

5 View formatting

Master the various components used to build views.

• Razor view engine and syntax
• Page layout
• Tag and HTML helpers
• Bootstrap CSS integration
• Partial view
• Display components (ViewComponent)

6 Model binding and validation

• Understand how model binding works in ASP.NET Core and how to use data annotations for model validation.
• Model binding
• Model validation (server side)
• Displaying model error messages
• Model validation (client side)

7 Exception handling, configuration and logging

Learn how to handle exceptions and provide a customized error page based on the type of exception. How configurations work and how to retrieve values from configurations. Use logging in an ASP.NET Core application with the ILogger object and dependency injection.

• Exception handling and custom error pages
• Configuration
• Logging
• Dependency injection

8 Data access using Entity Framework Core

Use and integrate Entity Framework Core into an ASP.NET Core project to provide the data access layer enabling us to perform data addition, deletion and modification operations.

• Overview of Entity Framework Core
• Integrating Entity Framework Core into an ASP.NET Core project

9 Enhanced user interface

• Filtering data in a list
• Add pagination
• Using the jQuery library to introduce some AJAX notions in views.

10 Introduction to Web APIs with ASP.NET Core

• Designing a first Web API controller

11 Overview of security in ASP.NET Core

Explain the basic principles of security in an ASP.NET Core application and how to secure controllers and actions.