About the course:

In this course, students will learn to develop advanced Microsoft ASP.NET Core Model-View-Controller (MVC) applications. The focus will be on coding activities that enhance the performance and scalability of the website application.

Course objectives:

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Describe the Microsoft Web Technologies stack and select an appropriate technology to use to develop any given application.
• Design the architecture and implementation of a web application that will meet a set of functional requirements, user interface requirements, and address business models.
• Configure the pipeline of ASP.NET Core web applications by using middleware and leverage dependency injection across MVC applications.
• Add controllers to an MVC application to manage user interaction, update models, and select and return views.
• Develop a web application that uses the ASP.NET Core routing engine to present friendly URLs and a logical navigation hierarchy to users.
• Create views, which display and edit data and interact with models and controllers, in an MVC application.
• Create MVC models and write code that implements business logic within model methods, properties, and events.
• Connect an ASP.NET Core application to a database by using Entity Framework Core.
• Implement a consistent look and feel across an entire MVC web application.
• Write JavaScript code that runs on the client-side and utilizes the jQuery script library to optimize the responsiveness of an MVC web application.
• Add client side packages and configure Task Runners.
• Run unit tests and debugging tools against a web application in Visual Studio 2017.
• Write an MVC application that authenticates and authorizes users to access content securely by using Identity.
• Build an MVC application that resists malicious attacks.
• Use caching to accelerate responses to user requests.
• Use SignalR to enable two-way communication between client and server.
• Describe what a Web API is and why developers might add a Web API to an application.
• Describe how to package and deploy an ASP.NET Core MVC web application from a development computer to a web server.

Course outline:

• Microsoft Web Technologies
• ASP.NET 4x
• ASP.NET Core MVC

• Planning in the Project Design Phase
• Designing Models, Controllers, and Views

• Configuring Middlewares
• Configuring Services

• Writing Controllers and Actions
• Configuring Routes
• Writing Action Filters

• Creating Views with Razor Syntax
• Using HTML Helpers and Tag Helpers
• Reusing Code in Views

• Creating MVC Models
• Working with Forms
• Validate MVC Application

• Introduction to Entity Framework Core
• Working with Entity Framework Core
• Use Entity Framework Core to connect to Microsoft SQL Server

• Using Layouts
• Applying CSS and JavaScript
• Using jQuery

• Applying Styles
• Using Task Runners
• Responsive design

• Testing MVC Applications
• Implementing an Exception Handling Strategy
• Logging MVC Applications

• Authentication in ASP.NET Core
• Authorization in ASP.NET Core
• Defending from Attacks

• Implementing a Caching Strategy
• Managing State
• Two-way communication

• Introducing Web APIs
• Developing a Web API
• Calling a Web API

• On-premise hosting and deployment
• Deployment to Microsoft Azure
• Microsoft Azure Fundamentals