Pro ASP.NET Core 3

Now in its 8th edition, this best-selling book on ASP.NET is now updated for ASP.NET Core 3. It contains detailed explanations of the new Core functionality which enables professional developers to produce leaner applications for the .NET Core platform. This cornerstone guide puts ASP.NET Core 3 into context and dives deep into the tools and techniques required to build modern, extensible web applications. New features and capabilities such as MVC 3, Blazor, Razor Pages, and gRPC are described in detail, along with demonstrations of how they are applied. ASP.NET Core 3 is the latest evolution of Microsoft's ASP.NET web platform and provides a "host agnostic" framework and a high-productivity programming model that promotes cleaner code architecture, test-driven development, and powerful extensibility. Author Adam Freeman has thoroughly revised this market-leading book and explains how to get the most from ASP.NET Core 3. He starts with the nuts-and-bolts topics, teaching you about middleware components, built-in services, request model binding and more. As you gain knowledge and confidence, Freeman introduces increasingly more complex topics, culminating your learning with advanced features, including endpoint routing, dependency injection, in-depth to give you the knowledge you need. This book follows the same format and style as the popular previous editions but brings everything up-to-date for the new ASP.NET Core 3 release. Readers will appreciate the fully worked case study of a functioning ASP.NET Core application that they can use as a template for their own projects. What You Will Learn: Holistically explore the entire ASP.NET Core Framework Learn how to apply the new ASP.NET Core 3 features in your developer environment See how to create RESTful web services and rich client-side applications Build on your existing knowledge to get up and running with new programming models quickly and effectively Who This Book Is For: This book is for web developers with a basic knowledge of ASP.NET Core and C# who want to incorporate the latest improvements and functionality in ASP.NET Core 3 into their own projects.