ASP.NET Core in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself (Sams Teach Yourself)

In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, students will learn how to build complete, professional-quality web solutions with ASP.NET 5. Using this book's straightforward, step-by-step approach, they'll master the entire process, from site design through data collection, user management through debugging and deployment. Jeffrey T. Fritz is a long time web developer with ASP, ASP.NET, and now ASP.NET Core. He loves the challenge of building web applications that look amazing while at the same time performing like an installed application. The browser is his bane and his best friend, as he has built applications that work with every browser going back as far as Internet Explorer 4. Jeff is a senior program manager on the .NET team responsible for the creation of the ASP.NET Core and .NET Core frameworks, and has taught several thousands of developers how to build better applications with Microsoft's ASP.NET frameworks. Previously, he was a developer advocate for Telerik where he specialized in their AJAX Control Toolkit. Jeff's proposals and designs led to the development of dozens of controls that many developers use daily. Jeff holds a bachelor of science degree in Management Sciences and Information Systems from the Pennsylvania State University. An avid social media contributor, Jeff would love to hear from you on Twitter at @csharpfritz and you can follow his current coding adventures on his blog at www.jeffreyfritz.com. Chapter 1: Introduction to ASP.NET Core Chapter 2: Setup Your Machine Chapter 3: Hello World - Reviewing the basic project template Chapter 4: Server-side Application Configuration: Project.json - defining the ASP.NET configuration Chapter 5: Server-side Application Configuration: Startup class - service configuration Chapter 6: Server-side Configuration: Config.json and configuration environment variables Chapter 7: Data Access - Entity Framework 7 Chapter 8: Beginning MVC Core - Concepts of the MVC architecture Chapter 9: Beginning MVC Core - Our first controller Chapter 10: Beginning MVC Core - Writing a view for Search Chapter 11: Beginning MVC Core - Scaffolding views Chapter 12: Beginning MVC Core - Writing data from a Controller Chapter 13: Beginning MVC Core - Web API Methods Chapter 14: Single-Page-Application Architecture - Introducing Angular 2 Chapter 15: Single-Page-Application Architecture - Interacting with server-side methods Chapter 16: Single-Page-Application Architecture - Routing Chapter 17: Configuration: Package.json - npm configuration Chapter 18: Configuration: bower.json - static file references from Bower Chapter 19: Configuration: gulpfile.js - Automating tasks Chapter 20: Security - Authentication configuration Chapter 21: Security - Authorization Chapter 22: Advanced MVC Core - Tag Helpers Chapter 23: Deployment to Production Chapter 24: ASP.NET Core and Docker Containers