Complete Blazor (WASM & Server) and ASP.NET API Development

Install Visual Studio 2022 Community Edition from visualstudio.com, run the installer, and select web development (ASP.NET) workload along with dotnet six; customize themes and sign in with a Microsoft account.

Discover how to install Visual Studio 2026 insider preview, choose workloads like ASP.NET web development and Maui, and leverage AI features and GitHub Copilot chat for streamlined development.

Install SQL Server Express on your machine, choosing the free development edition. Set up SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) and an instance to manage and connect to your databases.

Create a GitHub account in minutes by signing up with your email and password, verify with a code, and explore profiles, repositories, backups, and team collaboration.

Install and explore Postman to test your api endpoints, using http verbs and workspaces, and inspect json responses and status codes from free api endpoints.

Create a blank solution named bookstore app in Visual Studio 2022 to build a dotnet 6 ASP.NET Core web API project, then enable OpenAPI and swagger for testing.

Walk through the generated api project structure in a .NET 6 solution, including csproj, dependencies, launch settings, appsettings.json, and the weather forecast controller.

Configure serilog for an ASP.NET Core API by wiring Program.cs to appsettings.json, install the library, and write logs to a daily rolling file with seek.

Configure a 'allow all' course policy to permit any method, header, and origin, then apply it in the app middleware to enable cross-origin access during development.

Learn to add Blazor and API project to source control, create and push a public GitHub repository named bookstore app Blazor net six, and track changes on the master branch.

Learn the database-first approach by creating a bookstore SQL Server database in Visual Studio, defining authors and books with keys and foreign keys, and wiring it to Entity Framework Core.

Connect your app to sql server using entity framework, add ef core packages, configure appsettings.json with a connection string, and scaffold a db context, then explore code-first and database-first migrations.

Add entity framework core and scaffold the database, creating a db context and objects. Commit changes with a descriptive message, then push to the master branch.

Set up the first API endpoint to manage the author class stored in the database, enabling requests and responses to interact with author data.

Learn to scaffold an authors API controller with entity framework, inject the db context, and expose get, post, put, and delete actions with swagger.

Implement DTOs and AutoMapper to map author create, update, and read models, enforce API validations, and streamline data transfer between clients and the database.

Learn to implement robust error handling and logging using Serilog and Seq, including try-catch flows, friendly client messages, and avoiding exposure of internal exceptions.

We set up our first controller and replace the entity class with data transfer objects. We implement Automapper, configure mapping, and commit changes to GitHub.

set up book endpoints for the API, mirroring the authors CRUD with Automapper and logging, while bootstrapping context to talk to the database and exploring abstraction for production readiness.

Scaffold an API controller for books using Entity Framework, wired to the data context, test endpoints in Swagger, and prepare for detailed business rules and AutoMapper integration.

Master setting up AutoMapper and DTOs for a book listing API, including read-only and detail DTOs, with include and projection for efficient EF Core queries.

Review and refine the two controllers, noting optional logging and try/catch enhancements, and commit and sync your changes with a descriptive message, prepare to tackle authentication and authorization next.

Set up authentication and authorization for the API using Microsoft's identity library and JWT, to verify clients and grant access based on tokens in a stateless API.

Install identity core and EF core, configure identity with IdentityUser and roles, wire EF stores to the db context, generate and apply migrations to add identity tables to the database.

Extend user model by creating an API user that inherits identity user and adds first and last name, then update identity context to use it and run a migration.

Seed test roles and users with entity framework during migrations, configuring identity roles and api users, hashing passwords, and assigning users to roles via identity user roles.

Set up an API authentication flow by building an auth controller with register and login endpoints, using data transfer objects, identity user manager, role assignment, and validation.

Learn to implement json web token authentication for an api, covering issuer, audience, and token lifetime, and configure Program.cs with JWT bearer and token validation using appsettings and secrets.

Implement jwt-based authentication by generating a token with claims, signing credentials, issuer and audience, and returning an auth response containing the token and user details. Validate 401 unauthorized and 403 forbidden responses, and test with jwt.io to verify claims like sub, email, uid, and roles.

Apply the authorize attribute to controllers to require bearer tokens for all actions. Distinguish roles, such as administrator, to gate create, update, and delete operations.

Configure authentication and identity with JWT, extend identity and user tables, and commit changes as we prepare to build a Blazor Server client to consume the API.

Explore Blazor development with webassembly and server models, enabling client apps on the Dotnet stack using C#. Build a Blazor Server app and tour its folder layout.

Create a Blazor server app in Visual Studio, understand the project structure with razor components, pages, and shared components, and compare server and webassembly approaches.

Generate a C# HttpClient with NSwag Studio from Swagger/OpenAPI, wiring an IClient implementation and base address, using generated DTOs to call API endpoints.

Create a Razor component for registration at /users/register, bind a user dto to an edit form with Bootstrap styling, validate inputs, submit via the generated service client, and handle errors.

Set up login in a Blazor app with a login form connected to the API via HttpClient. Store the JWT token in local storage and update the API authentication state.

Implement cascading authentication state in a Blazor app, gate routes with authorize root view, redirect unauthenticated users to login, and manage token-based auth via API provider and local storage.

Review the completed Blazor server app and its authentication setup, including login and registration, the server versus WebAssembly tradeoffs, and the generated typed API client powered by the OpenAPI document.

Build author management screens in Blazor, performing create, read, update, and delete operations while integrating with the API, and toggle between UI design and API design roles.

Create an authors index page in a Blazor app, load author data via a service client, and build a Bootstrap table with actions while securing access with an authorized view.

Extend the http client by building a base http service and response wrapper to attach bearer tokens and centralize api error handling for author-related calls.

Create a Razor author create component to collect first name, last name, and biography, validate input, and submit to the author service with navigation back to the list.

Develop and wire an update author component in Blazor, extending the contract, fetch author by id, map to update DTO with AutoMapper, and submit the update.

Implement the author details page using a read-only form and pass the author id. Extend the API to include the author's books and render them in cards.

Learn to delete an author in a Blazor app with JS interop, including a delete button, confirm dialog using IJSRuntime, bearer token auth, and refreshing the author list on success.

Implement role-based authorization in a Blazor app by wrapping create, update, and delete actions in an authorized view and guarding routes with an administrator role.

Extend the Blazor app by upgrading the service client, and overriding non-200 responses, and create a data wrapper for author data, while exploring JS interop, component navigation, and book crud.

Master book management CRUD operations, mirroring author management across API and app, including image uploads and linking books to authors during creation.

Clone author service to set up book service methods, adapting data types and create, read, update, delete logic for books, including file upload. Inject iBookService and prepare the books index.

Set up a books index component in Blazor using the book service, display a table with image, title, price, and author, and implement delete with admin authorization.

Create a Blazor book creation page at books/create with administrator role authorization, an edit form, data annotation validation, an author dropdown, and a file upload that converts images to base64.

Finish the create book form and implement server-side file upload for book covers, saving base64 images to a filesystem path with unique names and returning a URL.

Create a book details view by reusing the edit form, display the cover image, title, ISBN, price, year, summary, and author, and provide edit or back-to-list navigation.

Learn to implement a Blazor edit book component by reusing the create form, handling image uploads, and updating the API with book update DTOs, validations, and UI tweaks.

Validate and commit basic CRUD changes on the authors and books navigation, test the details view with the correct IDs, and prepare for reusable components and improved error handling.