ASP.NET Core 6 MVC Training Course

Who should attend

.NET Developers who are looking to leverage the power and flexibility of Microsoft's ASP.NET Core platform to build robust, commercial MVC web apps.

Prerequisites

Delegates should have attended our Intro to .NET with C# Training Course or have equivalent .NET development experience using C#. Skills in web development ('classic' ASP.NET, HTML5, CSS) will be useful but not mandatory.

Live, instructor-led online and on-site training

We appreciate that you need flexibility to fit in with new working situations - whether you're an individual, part of a distributed team, or simply have projects and deadlines to meet. 

Our remote training can take place online in a virtual classroom, with content split into modules to accommodate your scheduling challenges and meet your learning goals. Get in touch today to find out how we can help design a cost-effective, flexible training solution.

Introduction to ASP.NET Core

• ASP.NET Core essentials
• Creating a minimal .NET Core console app
• Creating a minimal ASP.NET Core web app
• A closer look at ASP.NET Core middleware

Getting Started with MVC

• Introduction to ASP.NET Core MVC
• Understanding controllers
• Understanding views
• Layout pages
• Razor and Razor syntax
  • (optional for custom training: Razor Pages)

Creating a Complete ASP.NET MVC Application

• Setting the scene
• Defining models and views
• Handling form submissions
• Additional techniques
• (optional for custom training: Asynchronous action methods)
  

Tag Helpers

• Introduction to tag helpers
• UI tag helpers
• Link and script tag helpers
• Environment tag helper
• Cache tag helper

Structuring ASP.NET Core MVC Applications

• Setting the scene
• Defining the domain model
• Defining the Web application
• (optional for custom training: Custom middleware components)
  

Dependency Injection, Configuration, and Entity Framework

• Dependency Injection
• Configuration
• Using Entity Framework Core

Test Driven Development with ASP Core MVC

• Unit testing frameworks for .NET Core (Microsoft Test, NUnit, xUnit)
• XUnit.net walkthrough
• Unit testing ASP.NET MVC controllers
• Mocking

Defining Custom Tag Helpers

• Custom tag helpers
• Tag attributes
• Additional techniques
• Pagination tag helper
  

Implementing Navigation

• Filtering items displayed
• Defining a better URL schema
• Partial views
• Introduction to view components
• Defining a navigation view component
• (optional for custom training: Customising routes)
  

State Management

• Hidden fields
• Session state
• Caching
• Complete example of state management
• (optional for custom training: Working with a distributed cache; Web storage in HTML5)
  

Creating RESTful Services using Web API

• Overview of RESTful services
• Creating RESTful services
• A closer look at Web API Action methods
• Implementing industrial-strength Actions

Creating Single Page Applications

• Setting the scene
• Using npm to manage client packages
• Defining static content
• Gulp tasks

ASP.NET Authentication

• Overview of authentication
• Implementing Windows Authentication
• Implementing Individual User Accounts
• Techniques

Optional topic for custom training: ASP.NET Core Filters

• Introduction to filters
• Examples of filters
• Testing filters