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