You're reading from Web API Development with ASP.NET Core 8

Product type Book

Published in Apr 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804610954

Pages 804 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Concepts

Web Services

Author (1):

Xiaodi Yan

Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Web APIs

2. Chapter 2: Getting Started with ASP.NET Core Web APIs

3. Chapter 3: ASP.NET Core Fundamentals (Part 1)

4. Chapter 4: ASP.NET Core Fundamentals (Part 2)

5. Chapter 5: Data Access in ASP.NET Core (Part 1: Entity Framework Core Fundamentals)

6. Chapter 6: Data Access in ASP.NET Core (Part 2 – Entity Relationships)

7. Chapter 7: Data Access in ASP.NET Core (Part 3: Tips)

8. Chapter 8: Security and Identity in ASP.NET Core

9. Chapter 9: Testing in ASP.NET Core (Part 1 – Unit Testing)

10. Chapter 10: Testing in ASP.NET Core (Part 2 – Integration Testing)

11. Chapter 11: Getting Started with gRPC

12. Chapter 12: Getting Started with GraphQL

13. Chapter 13: Getting Started with SignalR

14. Chapter 14: CI/CD for ASP.NET Core Using Azure Pipelines and GitHub Actions

15. Chapter 15: ASP.NET Core Web API Common Practices

16. Chapter 16: Error Handling, Monitoring, and Observability

17. Chapter 17: Cloud-Native Patterns

18. Index

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You will need to have a basic understanding of programming using .NET and C# and be familiar with the concepts of object-oriented programming (OOP). If you are new to C#, you can learn C# from Microsoft Learn and freeCodeCamp at https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/foundational-c-sharp-with-microsoft.

Software/hardware covered in the book	Operating system requirements
.NET 8 SDK (https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet)	Windows, macOS, or Linux
Visual Studio Code (https://code.visualstudio.com/)	Windows, macOS, or Linux
Visual Studio 2022 Community Edition (https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/)	Windows, macOS, or Linux
Seq (https://datalust.co/download)	Windows, Docker/Linux
Prometheus (https://prometheus.io/download/)	Windows, Docker/Linux
Grafana (https://grafana.com/oss/grafana/)	Windows, Docker/Linux
Jaeger (https://www.jaegertracing.io/download/)	Windows, Docker/Linux
Azure
Azure DevOps
GitHub

In this book, we use LocalDB, which is a lightweight version of SQL Server. It is only available on Windows. If you are using a Mac or Linux, you can use a Docker container to run SQL Server. You can also use SQLite instead. To use SQLite, you need to update the connection string in the appsettings.json file and install the SQLite provider for EF Core, respectively. Please refer to Chapter 5 for more details.

We advise you to type the code yourself or access the code via the GitHub repository (link available in the next section). Doing so will help you learn better and retain the knowledge longer.