This book provides a comprehensive guide to building, deploying, and managing cross-platform web applications using ASP.NET Core. You'll gain expertise in Microsoft's open-source technology while integrating MVC, Docker, Azure Web Apps, Visual Studio, C#, JavaScript, and Entity Framework. Following the fictitious development team at Alpine Ski House, you'll experience a four-sprint journey from initial design to deployment and maintenance. The authors, three leading Microsoft MVPs, demonstrate how to build robust cross-platform applications, create immediate builds, and deploy viable products swiftly. You'll learn to leverage Azure for cloud scalability, develop solutions on Linux, and establish consistent environments using Docker. The book covers accessing data with Entity Framework Core, generating HTML views with the Razor view engine, and applying a new configuration system with structured logging. You'll also explore security through identity management, improve testability with dependency injection, and manage JavaScript effectively. Additional topics include using package managers, writing maintainable CSS with SASS, utilizing tag helpers, and testing web applications with xUnit.net and Jasmine. Code samples and complete apps are available for download, enhancing your learning experience.
David Paquette Bücher
