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Mastering ASP.NET Web API

You're reading from Mastering ASP.NET Web API Build powerful HTTP services and make the most of the ASP.NET Core Web API platform

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786463951

Length 330 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C#

Tools

ASP.NET

Concepts

Server Side Web Development

Author (1):

Pattankar

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

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Preface

1. Introduction to Microservices and Service-Oriented Architecture FREE CHAPTER

2. Understanding HTTP and REST

3. Anatomy of ASP.NET Core Web API

4. Controllers, Actions, and Models

5. Implementing Routing

6. Middleware and Filters

7. Perform Unit and Integration Testing

8. Web API Security

9. Integration with Database

10. Error Handling, Tracing, and Logging

11. Optimization and Performance

12. Hosting and Deployment

13. Modern Web Frontends

Uncle Bob's three rules of test-driven development

Here are some guidelines to Test-Driven development (TDD):

Only write code to make a test pass
When writing a test, write the minimal to make a test fail; this includes your code not compiling
Write the minimal amount of code to make a test pass

With that said, the other rule of thumb is Red-Green-Refactor.

Red-Green-Refactor

Write a test; if that doesn't compile, this is red. Make it pass, that is your green. Then refactor the code, not the unit test, to your heart's content, that is your refactor.

So red, green, refactor, that should be your mantra.

I know I have already started the production code in the preceding chapters. If this was a book about TDD, then I would have started with the test. Our aim has been to introduce ASP.NET Core 2.0.

We will go back to our example that we started off with, Puhoi cheese, and I will recap that we are storing and can retrieve a few stores that we have. A store has a description and the number of products that...

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Authors (1)

Pattankar

Pattankar

Mithun Pattankar, who hails from Kalaburgi and lives in Bangalore, India, works with the leading MNC as a consultant. He has been developing .NET-based applications for over 12 years now. He has an industry-wide experience in building Desktop Apps (WPF), Web Apps (ASP.NET and client-side frameworks), and Hybrid Mobile apps (Ionic). He is involved in all aspects of application development, and mentors his junior team members. He has been actively working on building ASP.NET Web APIs for different frontends and conducts technical training as well. Mithun believes in eating sattvic food for healthy living and loves spending time doing socio-spiritual activities. He occasionally blogs on mithunvp.com and can be reached on Twitter at @mithunpattankar.

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