ASP.NET Core 9.0 Essentials: Explore the .NET Core web stack, including Razor Pages, Blazor, and MVC, to build cloud-ready apps

Cover....1 Title Page....2 Copyright and Credit....3 Dedications....4 Contributors....5 Table of Contents....8 Part 1: ASP.NET Core 9 Fundamentals....22 Introducing ASP.NET Core 9 Concepts....24 Technical requirements....24 Why ASP.NET Core 9?....25 Comparing .NET and .NET Framework....27 Preparing our development environment....28 The development tool....28 SDK and runtime....29 CLI (Command-Line Interface)....29 Windows installation....29 macOS installation....31 Linux installation....32 Visual Studio Code....32 Testing the development environment....33 What is new in ASP.NET Core 9?....37 Summary....37 Chapter 2: Building Dynamic UIs with Razor Pages, MVC, and Blazor....38 Technical requirements....38 Learning about the ASP.NET Core UI....39 Rendering the UI....39 Implementing a UI server render model with Razor Pages and ASP.NET MVC....40 ASP.NET Core Razor Pages....40 ASP.NET Core MVC....56 Exploring UI client rendering with Blazor and JavaScript frameworks....63 Rich UIs with Blazor....63 ASP.NET Core 9 and JavaScript frameworks....67 Working with hybrid solutions....69 Summary....72 Chapter 3: Crafting Web APIs for Service Delivery....74 Technical requirements....74 Delivering business as a service....75 HTTP verbs and conventions....76 REST....76 HTTP status codes....77 Exploring minimal APIs....78 Implementing APIs using the controller-based approach....85 Creating a controller-based API....86 Understanding the product controller....87 ControllerBase utilities....89 Working with binding....91 Performing validations....94 Working with documentation....95 Documenting APIs with Swagger....96 Summary....106 Chapter 4: Real-Time Interactions with SignalR....108 Technical requirements....108 What is SignalR?....109 Understanding the concepts of Servers and Clients....111 Working with a task management application....111 Creating the Hub....114 Preparing the server application....116 Preparing the client application....117 Understanding the client and server communication flow....120 Working with streaming....122 Implementing basic streaming....123 Hosting the ASP.NET Core SignalR application....128 The basics of hosting a SignalR application....128 Summary....129 Part 2: Data and Security....130 Chapter 5: Working with Data and Persistence....132 Technical requirements....132 Docker installation....133 Azure Data Studio....133 Connecting to a SQL database....133 Preparing SQL Server....134 Using the SQL client....137 Understanding SQL, NoSQL, ORM, and Micro ORM....140 SQL versus NoSQL....140 ORM and Micro ORM....143 Working with EF Core and Dapper....148 EF Core....148 Dapper....157 Summary....159 Chapter 6: Enhancing Security and Quality....160 Technical requirements....161 Understanding the security principles of web-based applications....161 Security topics in web applications....162 Comparing authorization and authentication....164 Authentication....165 Authorization....166 Understanding OAuth 2.0 and OIDC....167 Working with the ASP.NET Core Identity framework....169 Understanding the ASP.NET Core Identity architecture....169 Getting started with integrating ASP.NET Core Identity....170 Configuring the database context....172 Updating the database....173 Adding ASP.NET Core Identity services and routes....175 Securing APIs with ASP.NET Core Identity....181 Securing application routes....183 Requesting an API with the access token....188 Strengthening application security....191 Managing secrets properly....192 Enforcing HTTPS and working with CORS....195 Preventing common vulnerabilities....197 Summary....199 Part 3: Applying Best Practices....200 Chapter 7: Adding Capabilities to Applications....202 Technical requirements....202 Working with ASP.NET Core 9 best practices....203 HTTP request best practices....203 Asynchronous requests and I/O optimization....208 Improving performance with a cache strategy and making the application resilient....210 Caching strategies....211 Integrating Redis in our application....212 Working with cache in the controller class....213 Configuring Redis Insight....218 Resilience mechanisms....220 Understanding and implementing logging and monitoring....223 Introduction to logging and monitoring....224 Summary....229 Chapter 8: Enhancing Applications with Middleware in ASP.NET Core 9....230 Technical requirements....230 Knowing the middleware pipeline....231 Understanding middleware flow....233 Benefits of middleware and best practices....235 Implementing custom middleware....237 Working with factory-based middleware....240 Adding capabilities to applications using middleware....242 Global error handling....243 Adding request logging....246 Rate limiting....248 Creating an extension method for middleware registration....252 Summary....255 Chapter 9: Managing Application Settings....256 Technical requirements....256 Understanding IConfiguration concepts and abstractions....257 IConfiguration interface....257 Working with configuration providers....259 Adding configuration providers....259 Creating a custom configuration provider....261 Learning the Options pattern....263 What is the Options pattern?....263 Implementing the Options pattern....265 Working with dynamic configurations and behaviors....270 Working with dynamic settings....270 Connecting an ASP.NET Core 9 application to Azure App Configuration....282 Summary....289 Part 4: Hosting, Deploying, and Preparing to the Cloud....290 Chapter 10: Deploying and Hosting Applications....292 Technical requirements....292 Preparing to publish your application and host locally....293 The importance of the publishing process....293 Generating a publishing package....294 Publishing the solution in a cloud environment....297 Creating Azure app services and database resources....298 Configuring Azure SQL Server....303 Publishing an application with Visual Studio Code....306 Understanding the Docker principles and how to package the application in a container....309 Understanding what a container is....309 Understanding Docker fundamentals....311 Packing the UrlShortener application....313 Generating a container image....316 Running a Docker container....317 Understanding the DevOps approach with CI/CD....319 CI....320 CD....321 Automating with GitHub Actions....323 Summary....332 Chapter 11: Cloud-Native Development with ASP.NET Core 9....334 Technical requirements....334 Creating a cloud-native mindset....335 Understanding the service layers in a cloud environment....335 Cloud-native development best practices....337 Going beyond code development....339 Working with cloud-native tools....339 Getting to know CNCF....342 Working with CNCF....342 The twelve-factor app principles....344 Code base....345 Dependencies....346 Config....346 Backing services....348 Build, release, run....349 Processes....351 Port binding....352 Concurrency....354 Disposability....355 Dev/prod parity....357 Logs....358 Admin process....360 The importance of the twelve-factor app methodology....361 Understanding cloud architecture principles....361 Working with modern design architecture....362 Event-driven architectures....362 Understanding microservices....366 Considering deployment strategies....368 Summary....369 Index....370 Other Books You May Enjoy....1