ASP.NET Core - Cross-Platform Development

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Install the latest .NET SDK across operating systems, download SDK 10 with long-term support, verify with dotnet --info, and set up your IDE for cross-platform ASP.NET Core development.

Install Visual Studio Code to create a free, cross-platform development environment for ASP.NET Core on Mac, Windows, or Linux, with Explorer, remote explorer, source control, run and debug, and extensions.

Learn how to install Visual Studio 2022 on Windows or Mac, choose the ASP.NET and web development workload, and compare Visual Studio with Visual Studio Code for cross-platform web development.

Discover how to download and install SQL Server Express 2017, set up SQL Server Management Studio, and begin interacting with databases through SQL queries and connection strings.

Learn to run SQL Server in Docker containers on any operating system by pulling the Microsoft MySQL server image, mapping ports, and connecting with Azure Data Studio.

Azure Data Studio is a cross-platform database tool for Windows, macOS, and Linux that connects to data sources, including Azure. Download options include Windows installer, zip, macOS, and Linux installations.

Create a cross-platform asp.net core mvc web app with the dotnet cli, verify installation via dotnet info, generate with dotnet new mvc -o, and open in visual studio code.

Create an ASP.NET Core MVC project in Visual Studio by selecting the MVC template and .NET 7. Run locally with HTTP/HTTPS profiles and explore the solution explorer.

Explore Visual Studio Code and its core features for .NET development. Learn the explorer, search and replace, built-in terminal, extensions, git integration, and run and debug.

Explore the ASP.NET Core project structure—from bin and wwwroot to controllers, actions, views, and models—and learn cross-platform routing and publishing workflows.

Push your ASP.NET Core project to a new GitHub repository, linking Visual Studio Code to a remote server. Manage ignores, commits, pushes, and pulls to keep code synced and accessible.

Explore how the layout file powers the dynamic HTML template and how Bootstrap and its CSS enable easy nav bar customization with color themes.

Create an about us page in an ASP.NET Core MVC app by adding a home controller about action, a corresponding view, and updating navigation with Razor tag helpers.

Commit and manage changes in a source control system for an ASP.NET Core project, tracking added images, new views and controller actions, then compare changes and stage or discard changes.

Connect to a Docker-hosted Microsoft SQL Server using Azure Data Studio by configuring port 1400, SQL login, and certificate settings, then organize connections by group.

Create a school management database using scripts, defining students, lectures, and courses with an identity primary key and constraints, then connect it to an app using Entity Framework.

Connect a .NET app to a SQL Server database using Entity Framework Core, scaffold the DbContext from an existing database, and register it in startup.

Scaffold controllers and views for create, read, update, delete using the dotnet code generator, then run the app and browse /courses to perform these operations.

Explore how a scaffolded ASP.NET Core courses controller uses dependency injection and the IOC container to access the DB context, perform CRUD operations, and apply routing, binding, and security features.

Learn how scaffolded views bind a strongly typed model, display collections with for-each, and generate create, edit, details, and delete pages using HTML helpers and routing.

Scaffold controllers and views for courses, lecturers, and students using the dotnet aspnet-codegenerator. Build navigation and test create, edit, and details pages while validating data input and types.

Commit and push after adding a database and scaffolded views and controllers, then beautify the application in the source control management section.

Enhance the application's interface by beautifying action buttons and the bootstrap table, refining spacing between sections, and preparing for cohesive styling in the next lesson with bootstrap.

Transform course links into Bootstrap buttons using BTN classes like success, primary, warning, and danger to create a consistent, colorful UI for index, create, edit, and delete pages.

Implement a dynamic delete workflow using jQuery and Sweet Alert to confirm before deleting, submit via a form, and refresh the page to reflect changes, ensuring anti-forgery protection.

Install data tables, a jQuery library that enhances tables with paging, search, and bootstrap five styling, and initialize it to transform pages with class table.

Apply data annotations to set human readable display names via a separate metadata class, then link it to the scaffolded model with model metadata type and partial classes.

Add two new tables, classes and enrollments, with foreign keys to lectures, courses, and students, to track class times and student enrollments.

Demonstrates scaffolding controllers for school data models, explains C# keyword class clashes with domain terms, and shows resolving errors by prefixing keywords and using lambda expressions before dotnet build.

Clean up the user interface with Bootstrap styling, integrate jQuery libraries, and customize labels to persist through scaffolding. Resolve syntax errors, then commit and push your progress as a checkpoint.

Understand authentication and authorization to control access, then learn to centralize identity with Auth0, a secure SaaS provider, for easy, scalable cross-platform apps.

Integrate Auth0 into a regular web ASP.NET Core app by configuring the domain and client ID, installing the Auth0 ASP.NET Core authentication package, and adding authentication.

Test authentication flows and user experience for the asp.net core app, validating sign up with email/password or social providers, handling openid connect tokens, and securing access with https and auth0.

Modify the navigation bar with a shared login partial, showing the current user when authenticated via a claims principle; add a profile page and a user profile view model.

Update shared layout to hide links for unauthenticated users, remove the privacy link from nav, and apply authorize attributes with allow anonymous where appropriate for courses, classes, and enrollments.

Commit all changes after reaching a milestone, push to GitHub, and continue to the next section.

Explore class management in ASP.NET Core by modeling one-to-many and many-to-many relationships between lecturers, courses, and students, and design the database and interface to support classes with Entity Framework.

Explore foreign keys and one-to-many relationships among students, enrollments, classes, lectures, and courses, and learn how entity framework uses navigation properties and include to fetch related data.

Explore queries in ASP.NET Core using the context and include to fetch courses and lecturer details, and manage create, edit, and delete flows with dropdown data and foreign key constraints.

Learn how to customize select lists in ASP.NET Core by projecting course and lecturer data into display fields like full name and course name, with IDs as values.

Learn to display related data in ASP.NET Core UI by replacing IDs with names using navigation properties, populating dropdowns with view data and select lists, and refining labels with metadata.

Create a class enrollment view model to support a manage enrollments page, show class details and student lists with is enrolled flags, and implement add/remove actions.

Learn to scaffold a details view for managing enrollments in ASP.NET Core, binding to a class enrollment view model and rendering a student table with add or remove actions.

Create a manage enrollments action in the classes controller, load related course, lecture, enrollments, and student data with include statements, and handle enrollment or removal via a post action.

Learn to test and debug an ASP.NET Core app using breakpoints, F5, F10, F11, and logs, inspecting variables and generated queries while stepping through enrollment workflows.

Improve maintainability by naming parameters clearly and aligning route data with the destination. Use a dedicated class view model, populate it in the controller, and render concise display strings.

Learn to manage class and enrollment data in ASP.NET Core by building view models, using navigation properties and includes, creating custom views and actions, and committing changes to GitHub.

Add a toast notification to an ASP.NET Core cross-platform app using the ASP.NET Core Hero toast notification, configuring duration, dismissibility, and position, then display enroll success and unenroll warnings.