ASP.NET Core Application Development: Building an application in four sprints

by James Chambers, David Paquette, Simon Timms

Master ASP.NET Core from architecture through deployment and beyond This book guides you through the entire process of building, deploying, and managing cross-platform web apps with ASP.NET Core. You’ll master Microsoft’s revolutionary open source ASP.NET Core technology, and learn how to integrate the immense power of MVC, Docker, Azure Web Apps, Visual Studio, C#, JavaScript, and Entity Framework. Working alongside the fictitious development team at Alpine Ski House, you’ll witness a four-sprint journey starting with a blank canvas. You’ll see the team architect and design their software, adjust to user feedback, and move through builds, testing, deployment, maintenance, and refactoring. Throughout, you’ll discover how to deliver state-of-the-art software faster and more repeatably than ever before. Three leading Microsoft MVPs show how • Build great cross-platform apps using ASP.NET Core and open source frameworks • Go beyond MVC to build a complete ASP.Net Core application • Create builds on Day One and quickly deploy viable products • Integrate Azure support to gain cloud scalability • Run or develop cross-platform solutions on Linux • Establish consistent development environments with Docker • Access data with Entity Framework Core 1.0 • Generate HTML views with the updated Razor view engine • Apply the new configuration system and structured logging • Use identity to enforce security and provide rights • Improve testability and maintainability with dependency injection • Use and manage JavaScript in ASP.NET Core environments • Choose and work with package managers to make life easier • Use SASS to write maintainable, attractive CSS • Make the most of tag helpers and other reusable components • Test web apps efficiently using xUnit.net and Jasmine • Design, organize, and refactor apps to smoothly accommodate change Get all code samples, including complete apps,

432 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2015

Reviews

[Andrew · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an odd book. I started reading it in the hope that it would walk me through the process of creating an ASP.NET MVC application. I'm an experienced ASP.NET Web Forms developer, but I've had only a little exposure to ASP.NET MVC. So I've been wanting to learn more about it. This book doesn't really walk you through creating an application, in the way that a normal programming book might. Instead, it sets up a fictional scenario, where a development team is creating a new web site for a ski lodge, and uses that as a jumping-off point to explore different aspects of ASP.NET MVC. Over the course of 24 chapters, it covers quite a lot of topics. For many of them, it's really only a cursory review; you need to look elsewhere for detail. (The book includes a lot of links to web resources for more detail.)

The narrative of the fictional dev team is sometimes entertaining, and often corny. It helps tie things together. Some readers will like it, and others will roll their eyes and groan. (It's easy enough to skip it, if it bothers you.)

There is an example application that goes along with this book, and which can be found at Github, but I found it too complicated to really get much out of. (Though maybe I should spend more time studying it, now that I've finished reading the book.)

While this book wasn't exactly what I was looking for, I found it to be a great help in understanding the current state of ASP.NET web development.

[RotemMeron · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book is a little misleading. The title says "Building an Application". I tried to follow the book chapter by chapter, and got nowhere. A lot of times the book says "for a more in depth detail look here and here..." or something like that. Ya, great. So why did I buy the book? If I wanted to read blogs I would just use google. For publishing for example it says something like "There are many ways to publish, you could do this, you could do that". But it doesn't really follow through all the way, so what's the point? This book should be about teaching. It's a little bit more like story telling. I honestly don't understand how this book got more than 2 stars rating.

[Nicholas Wilhelm · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm reading this for the 70-486 exam. This book scrapes the surface of everything I need to know to pass the exam allowing me to deep dive further if necessary. I really enjoyed how organized and prepared the text was.

I feel like a lot of the bad reviews I read are from people who were not expecting this book to be so broad in covering the entire software development process from IDE to DevOps to Deployed website via CI/CD. If you just want to learn .NET Core or MVC this book will not be your cup of tea.

[Myte · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is a really top-level overview over the ASP.NET Core stack for the 2018s. You could read it if you are a new at this stack and want to get a high-level view, but I don't think experienced developer will find anything useful here (except when you are obsolete and trying to catch modern techs)

[Dmitry · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ну, если вы до этого ни разу не пересекались с MVC или вообще с разработкой, может оказаться полезным. Иначе это просто трата времени

[Sb · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this for clearing 70-486.

[Alex · Rating 4 out of 5]

It appears to be a solid book for developing in ASP.NET Core. The book introduces many important concepts, and lightly delves into each.