ASP.NET 8 Best Practices: Explore techniques, patterns, and practices to develop effective large-scale .NET web apps

Explore techniques, patterns, and practices to develop effective large-scale .NET web apps

Key Features:

• Get to grips with standard guidelines for every phase of the SDLC, encompassing pre-coding, coding, and post-coding stages
• Build high-quality software by employing industry best practices throughout the development process
• Apply proven techniques to improve your coding, debugging, and deployment processes for websites
• Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook

Book Description:

As .NET 8 emerges as a long-term support (LTS) release designed to assist developers in migrating legacy applications to ASP.NET, this best practices book becomes your go-to guide for exploring the intricacies of ASP.NET and advancing your skills as a software engineer, full-stack developer, or web architect.

This book will lead you through project structure and layout, setting up robust source control, and employing pipelines for automated project building. You'll focus on ASP.NET components and gain insights into their commonalities. As you advance, you'll cover middleware best practices, learning how to handle frontend tasks involving JavaScript, CSS, and image files. You'll examine the best approach for working with Blazor applications and familiarize yourself with controllers and Razor Pages. Additionally, you'll discover how to leverage Entity Framework Core and exception handling in your application. In the later chapters, you'll master components that enhance project organization, extensibility, security, and performance.

By the end of this book, you'll have acquired a comprehensive understanding of industry-proven concepts and best practices to build real-world ASP.NET 8.0 websites confidently.

What You Will Learn:

• Explore the common IDE tools used in the industry
• Identify the best approach for organizing source control, projects, and middleware
• Uncover and address top web security threats, implementing effective strategies to protect your code
• Optimize Entity Framework for faster query performance using best practices
• Automate software through continuous integration/continuous deployment
• Gain a solid understanding of the .NET Core coding fundamentals for building websites
• Harness HtmlHelpers, TagHelpers, ViewComponents, and Blazor for component-based development

Who this book is for:

This book is for developers who have working knowledge of ASP.NET and want to advance in their careers by learning best practices followed in developer communities or corporate environments. Beginners can use this book as a springboard for integrating best practices into their learning journey, and as a reference to gain clarity on advanced ASP.NET topics at a later time.