Ultimate ASP.NET Core Web API

About Course

Ultimate ASP.NET Core Web API – Our bestselling program

What’s included?

Ultimate ASP.NET Core Web API – The Online Text Course

Additional bonus materials:

Dockerizing ASP.NET Core Application (Online Text Course) – Full Table of Contents Here.
Practical JSON Requests Collection
Mastering ASP.NET Core Security (Online Text Course) – Full Table of Contents Here.
ASP.NET Core Web API With Dapper (PDF) – Full Table of Contents Here.

All materials are available in .NET 9 with Community Support over Discord.

What you’ll learn

This course dives into the foundational aspects and advanced techniques essential for building robust and scalable Web APIs.

After understanding the basics of project configuration, you’ll learn how to effectively utilize dependency injection, configure logging services, and implement the Onion Architecture for a maintainable project structure.

The course covers critical aspects of web API development, including routing, naming, and binding, handling various types of HTTP requests, and ensuring method safety and idempotency.

As you progress, you will explore advanced topics like content negotiation, validation, asynchronous programming, and global error handling. You’ll gain proficiency in managing data through paging, filtering, searching, and sorting techniques. Moreover, the course addresses the importance of security by teaching authentication, authorization, and the use of refresh tokens.

Additionally, you will also learn about action filters, health checks, API versioning, and how to document APIs effectively.

Additional bonus chapters provide insights into performance improvements, CQRS with MediatR, and working with multiple databases, rounding out a thorough and practical learning experience.

By the end of the course, you will have a solid grasp of ASP.NETCore Web API development, equipped with the skills to build, deploy, and maintain high-performance web applications. This comprehensive course ensures you are ready to tackle real-world challenges and create efficient, scalable APIs.

You can find an entire TOC with preview lessons in the Course Content section below.

Course Content

Introduction

Mindset Going In
Community Access
SDK Versions, Visual Studio Community, and SQL Express
The Source Code and Bonuses

ASP.NET Core Web API Fundamentials

Project Configuration

Dependency Injection in ASP.NET Core

Configuring a Logging Service

Onion Architecture Implementation

Why Onion Architecture?
About Onion Architecture
Creating Entities
Context Class and Database Connection
Migration and Initial Data Seed
Fluent API Configuration
Repository Pattern Logic
Repository Interfaces and Classes
Creating a Repository Manager (Unit of Work)
Adding a Service Layer
Registering RepositoryContext at a Runtime

Routing, Naming and Binding in ASP.NET Core Web API

Handling GET Requests

Web API Return Types

Global Error Handling

Getting Additional Resources With Relations

About Course

What’s included?

What you’ll learn

You can find an entire TOC with preview lessons in the Course Content section below.

Course Content

Introduction

Mindset Going In

Community Access

SDK Versions, Visual Studio Community, and SQL Express

The Source Code and Bonuses

ASP.NET Core Web API Fundamentials

Introduction to Web APIs

Steps to Create a Web API

Project Configuration

Creating a New Project

launchSettings.json File Configuration

Program Class Explanation

Extension Methods and CORS Configuration

IIS Configuration

Additional Code in the Program Class

Environment-Based Settings

ASP.NET Core Middleware

Dependency Injection in ASP.NET Core

What is Dependency Injection?

Inversion of Control With the Constructor Injection

Making the Solution More Flexible with Dependency Injection

Service Registration With Dependency Injection Container

Dependency Injection Lifetimes in ASP.NET Core

Keyed Services to Resolve Dependencies in .NET

Configuring a Logging Service

Why Logging?

Creating the LoggingService Project

Creating the ILoggerManager Interface and Installing Serilog

Implementing the Interface and Configuring Serilog

Logging Service Testing

Adding a New Sink – Seq

Onion Architecture Implementation

Why Onion Architecture?

About Onion Architecture

Creating Entities

Context Class and Database Connection

Migration and Initial Data Seed

Fluent API Configuration

Repository Pattern Logic

Repository Interfaces and Classes

Creating a Repository Manager (Unit of Work)

Adding a Service Layer

Registering RepositoryContext at a Runtime

Routing, Naming and Binding in ASP.NET Core Web API

Routing in ASP.NET Core Web API

Using HttpMethods With Routing

Route Constraints in ASP.NET Core Web API

Route Binding In ASP.NET Core Web API

Naming Our Resources

Handling GET Requests

Controllers in Web API

Getting All Companies From the Database

Testing the Result With Postman

DTO Classes vs. Entity Model Classes

Using AutoMapper in ASP.NET Core

Web API Return Types

Different Return Types To Use in Our Actions

Global Error Handling

Handling Errors Globally With the Built-In Middleware

Using the IExceptionHandler Interface

Standardizing Exception Handling With ProblemDetails

Getting Additional Resources With Relations

Getting a Single Resource From the Database

Handling Invalid Requests in a Service Layer

Parent/Child Relationships in Web API

Getting a Single Employee for Company

Eager Loading To Fetch Multiple Entities in a Single Query

Content Negotiation

What Do We Get Out of the Box?

Restricting Media Types

Implementing a Custom Formatter

Method Safety And Method Idempotency

Important HTTP Standards

Creating Resources

Handling POST Requests