
Explore cross-platform ASP.NET Core development by building an MVC app with Entity Framework Core, Bootstrap 5, and Auth0, using Docker, VS Code, and .NET CLI across Windows, macOS, and Linux.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Add two new tables, classes and enrollments, with foreign keys to lectures, courses, and students, to track class times and student enrollments.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Overview
ASP.NET Core MVC is a powerful, flexible framework for building modern web applications. This course teaches you how to use ASP.NET Core MVC to build cross-platform web applications that can run on any operating system, including Windows, Linux, and MacOS.
You will start by learning the fundamentals of ASP.NET Core MVC, including how to create and configure a new project, design the layout and structure of your application, and implement standard features such as authentication, authorization, and data validation.
As you progress through the course, you will learn how to use advanced features of ASP.NET Core MVC, such as dependency injection, middleware, and filters, to create more complex and scalable applications. You will also learn how to optimize your applications for performance and deployment.
By the end of this course, you will have a solid understanding of using ASP.NET Core MVC to build cross-platform web applications and be well-prepared to tackle real-world projects.
Whether you are new to web development or have some experience, this course will provide a comprehensive overview of ASP.NET Core MVC and help you become proficient in its use.
You will learn how to:
Build an entirely data-driven web application.
Use the dotnet command line interface and complete tasks like:
Scaffolding a database using Entity Framework Core
Generating Views and Controllers
Running and debugging an application.
Manage packages in a project.
Understand how Models, Views, and Controllers combine to facilitate a web application
Use and manipulate data models and database contexts.
Understand how to add views and actions to a controller
Use Bootstrap 5 to manipulate the web application's overall look and feel.
Use GitHub for source control management.
Use popular cross-platform development tools like:
Visual Studio Code
Azure Data Studio
Docker
Add OpenID Connect authentication using Auth0
Content and Overview
To take this course, you must have some knowledge of HTML, CSS, and Object Oriented Programming, if not with C#. Even if you have little exposure to the .NET development stack, this course is beginner-friendly and full of development tips.
This course has several hours of premium content but is smartly broken up to highlight related activities based on each module in the application being built. We will also look at troubleshooting and debugging errors as we go along, implementing best practices, writing efficient logic, and understanding why developers do things the way they do. Your knowledge will grow, step by step, throughout the course, and you will be challenged to be the best you can be.
By the time you have finished the course, you will have moved around in Visual Studio and examined logic and syntax errors so much that it will be second nature for you when working in the .NET environment. This will put your newly learned skills into practical use and impress your boss and coworkers.
The course is complete with working files hosted on GitHub, including some files to make it easier for you to replicate the demonstrated code. You will be able to work alongside the author as you work through each lecture and will receive a verifiable certificate of completion upon finishing the course.
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