Mastering MongoDB with ASP.NET Core: A Complete Guide to MVC

In this lecture, the learners will be walked through the entire process of migrating the completed CRUD project in MVC to the current ASP.NET 6.0 version.

This is the section introduction video. This lecture covers the lectures to be covered in this section. It discusses briefly about the highlights of the topics covered

The students will develop an understanding of the NoSQL concept. This course uses MongoDB as database which is a popular NoSQL document based database.

This lecture discusses and compares the two common types of databases: NoSQL and RDBMS (Relational Database). The students will be able to see the relatives merits of both.

This is the section introduction video. This lecture covers the lectures to be covered in this section. It discusses briefly about the highlights of the topics covered

This lecture discusses the procedure of installing the MongoDb server. It gives the links and details of installation. The lecture discusses the importance of the mongod.exe and mongo.exe files.

This is the section introduction video. This lecture covers the lectures to be covered in this section. It discusses briefly about the highlights of the topics covered

This lecture discusses how to connect to the MongoDB server and start a MongoDB client to handle the database commands. The students will be able to connect to the server and start a MongoDB client for issuing further commands.

This lecture teaches the method of creating a Mongo database. It also shows how to add a collection to the Mongo database so created. The students will be able to create a MongoDB database and add a Customer collection to the database which will be required later for connecting to the ASP.NET Core application.

This lecture introduces the queries in MongoDB for the read and create operations. The students will know the query syntax for these and will have some hands-on practice on the Mongo shell(on Windows command prompt).

This lecture introduces the queries in MongoDB for the update and delete operations. The students will know the query syntax for these and will have some hands-on practice on the Mongo shell(on Windows command prompt).

This lecture emphasizes on two most important concepts:

1) The demonstration of handling unstructured data (documents that have a different set of properties than other documents in a given collection)

2) Auto-generated ObjectId in MongoDB

This lecture introduces MongoDB Compass, the GUI for MongoDB database. Various features of the GUI are discussed and students will be able to create a database, add a collection to the database and add documents to the collection. They shall also be able to run all the CRUD operations on their MongoDB database which does everything that the command shell does with a user freindly way without writing and query.

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This lecture gives a somewhat detailed overview of ASP.NET Core. ASP.NET Core has evolved from the popular Microsoft web framework known as ASP.NET and released in June 2016.  The course uses ASP.NET Core to build the applications, hence it will be beneficial for the students to have an overview of the ASP.NET Core web development platform offered by Microsoft.

The timing of the publication of this course is significant since the ASP.NET Core 3 ( the version used for the course is ASP.NET Core 3 preview 8 ) has just seen its first official version released September 23-25 in Microsoft Conference in US.

This lecture details the highlights and special features of ASP.NET Core web platform. The students will appreciate the need to involve with this modern, cross-platform and open source technology which is bound to be the future of web development.

This is a lecture that covers the fundamentals of asynchronous programming. Asynchronous programming is at the core of ASP.NET Core 3 so it is an essential concept to learn for streamlining the entry into the world of ASP.NET Core framework.

This is the section introduction video. This lecture covers the topics to be covered in this section. It discusses briefly the highlights of the topics covered in the section

This lecture shows an actual ASP.NET Core 3 MVC (Model-View-Controller) completed app that the students are going to learn and build hands-on. The students will also learn how to create an ASP.NET Core 3 MVC web application.

In this tutorial, the project structure of the ASP.NET Core 3 MVC application created earlier is inspected and discussed. The students will become aware of Dependencies, Properties, wwwroot folder, Controller, Models and Views folder, appsettings.json file as well as the Program and Startup classes.

This lesson covers the MVC architecture in detail with animations.  At the end of this lesson, the students will be able to appreciate the function of controller, model and views in an MVC application. They will be able to grasp the separation of concern concept  which is the main feature of this design pattern.

This is the section introduction video. This lecture covers the lectures to be covered in this section. It discusses briefly about the highlights of the topics covered

This lecture shows how to add a Class Library project to the ASP.NET Core 3 solution to create a data access layer. Students will know the process to add another project to an existing solution.

This lecture shows the creation of a Models folder in the data access project. It then demonstrates how to create a Customer class to work as a Model for the solution. It shows the ways to add the required NuGet packages from the package manager library as well. The students will be able to create the models and also understand the function of various attributes for client-side validations. 

This lecture shows how to add a Customer context for database operations, which implements an Interface. After attending this lecture the students will be able to add a CustomerContext implementing an ICustomerContext interface.

This lecture shows the creation of an interface for implementing the repository pattern. The students will know how to create and add relevant members to an interface that will be implemented.

This lecture walks through the creation of a CustomerRepository that implements the interface created earlier.

This lecture shows the students the process of setting up the appsettings.json file to access the MongoDB database. The students will be able to configure the ConnectionString and Database after completing this lecture

This lecture shows how to register Settings, Context and Repository Classes in the Startup class for the ASP.NET Core MVC project. By the end of this lecture, the students will have a good idea of registering the various services through the ConfigureServices() method.   

This lecture shows how to edit the Index action method to use the Customer Repository. The students will learn how to write the asynchronous action method in this ASP.NET Core 3 application with the await keyword. Asynchronous programming is the pillar of any ASP.NET Core application.

This lecture takes the students through the steps to edit the Index view of the Home Controller to customize it. 

This lecture shows the creation of an action method to get a customer by Id.

This lecture walks through the steps to create a view to show the customer by Id.

The students will be able to create Insert Action method of the Home Controller after going through the lecture. This lecture is edited to now include BindAttribute explanation and contains external resources on model binding and BindAttribute for additional knowledge into the Binding syntax. 

Walks through the process and creates the Insert view to add a new customer to the database.

Walks through the process and creates the action method to update a customer by id to the database.

Walks through the process and creates the Update view to update an existing customer to the database.

Walks through the process and creates the ConfirmDelete action method to confirm before deleting a  customer from the database.

Walks through the process and creates the ConfirmDelete view to confirm the customer for deletion.

This lecture steps through and writes the code for the Delete action method.

This lecture shows how the application is run and tested with test data for checking all the CRUD functionalities. The students will be able to test the application for completeness after completing the lecture.

This lecture discusses how MongoDB models multiple entities and associates two collections that have many to many relationships. The familiar case of Customers and Products collections have been used to demonstrate this association by querying the database. The students will know how to create multiple documents in a many to many relationships and query them to retrieve the result. 

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