ASP.NET Core in Action

Part 2. Building complete applications

We covered a lot of ground in part 1. You saw how an ASP.NET Core application is composed of middleware and we focused heavily on the MVC middleware. You saw how to use it to build traditional server-side-rendered apps using Razor and how to build web APIs for mobile and client-side apps.

In part 2, we dive deeper into the framework and look at a variety of components that you’ll inevitably need to build more complex apps. By the end of this part, you’ll be able to build dynamic applications, customized to specific users, that can be deployed to multiple environments, each with a different configuration.

ASP.NET Core uses dependency injection (DI) throughout its libraries, so it’s important that you understand ...