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Building Web APIs with ASP.NET Core

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Overview

Discover how to build robust web APIs with ASP.NET Core, the open-source framework for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • APIs today
  • Why an API?
  • What you should know
1. Getting Started
  • Prerequisites and setup
  • "Hello World," API style
  • "Hello World" with Visual Studio Code
  • HTTP in a nutshell
  • REST basics
  • API design basics
  • Tools for API testing
2. Retrieving Data
  • Controllers and actions
  • Routing basics
  • Creating a data model
  • Using Entity Framework Core
  • Returning a list of items
  • Using IActionResult
  • Returning an item
  • Handling errors
  • Making the API asynchronous
3. Advanced Data Retrieval
  • Introduction
  • Paginating items
  • Filtering items
  • Searching items
  • Sorting items
  • Challenge: Advanced search
  • Solution: Advanced search
4. Writing Data
  • HTTP verbs
  • ASP.NET model binding
  • Model validation
  • Adding an item with POST
  • Updating an item with PUT
  • Deleting an item with DELETE
  • Challenge: Deleting several items
  • Solution: Deleting several items
5. API Versioning
  • Versioning options
  • The Microsoft versioning library
  • Implement URL versioning
  • Implementing header versioning
  • Implementer query string versioning
  • Documenting the API
6. Securing APIs
  • Enforcing HTTPS
  • Consuming the API with JavaScript
  • Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)
  • Enabling CORS
  • OAuth and OpenID Connect
  • Setting up IdentityServer
  • Securing the API with IdentityServer
  • Consuming the protected API
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Christian Wenz

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