ASP.NET CORE WEB API | The Complete Guide

Getting Started

Installing Asp.Net Core SDK and Runtime

New Web API project with Visual Studio

Default Asp.Net Core Project Files

Testing the Web API Project with Postman and Swagger

Summary

Quiz: Basics of ASP.NET Core Web API

Getting Started

Adding the Book Model

Adding Your EF Core DB Context

Adding Your First EF Core Migration

Seeding Your Database With Data

Adding Your First Web API Controller

Adding a New Book [HttpPost]

Listing All Books [HttpGet]

Updating an Existing Book [HttpPut]

Deleting an Existing Book [HttpDelete]

Summary

Quiz: Build Your First Asp.Net Core Web API

Getting Started with Relational Data Management

One-to-Many Relationships in Entity Framework Core

Many-to-Many Relationships in Entity Framework Core

Adding Author and Publisher Services to Web API

Adding Relational Data With [HttpPost]

Getting Authors of a Book with [HttpGet]

Getting Books of an Author with [HttpGet]

Getting Books of a Publisher including Authors

Deleting Relational Data With Entity Framework Core

Summary

Quiz: Managing Relational Data in ASP.NET Core with Entity Framework

Responses and status codes

HTTP Response Status Codes

Try-Catch-Finally block

Throwing custom exceptions

Global error handling

Custom global error handling

Summary of Error and Exception Handling

Quiz: Error and Exception Handling in ASP.NET Core

Introduction to Controller Action Return Types

Specific Type

IActionResult

ActionResult<Type>

Custom Return Type

Summary of Controller Action Return Types

Quiz: Controller Action Return Types

Introduction

Adding Server Side Sorting

Adding Server Side Filtering

Adding Server Side Paging

Summary

Quiz: Sorting, Filtering, and Paging

Getting Started

Setting up Versioning in .NET Web API

Query String-Based versioning in Web API

URL Based Versioning

HTTP Header-Based Versioning

HTTP Media Type-Based Versioning

Summary

Quiz: Web API Versioning

Introduction to Logging

The What, Why and How of Logging

Setting up Serilog in Web API

Logging to a File using Serilog

Adding a new Log table using EFCore migrations

Logging to an SQL Table using Serilog

Retreiving all logs from the database

Summary of Logging

Quiz: Logging in ASP.NET Core with Serilog

Introduction to Unit Testing

Choosing a Unit Testing Framework

Setting up Unit Testing Environment

Setting Up Unit Testing In-Memory DB

Unit Testing GetAllPublishers in PublishersService

Challenge: Unit Testing GetPublisherById in PublishersService

Solution: Unit Testing GetPublisherById in PublishersService

Unit Testing AddPublisher in PublishersService

Unit Testing GetPublisherData method in PublishersService

Unit Testing DeletePublisherById method in PublishersService

Challenge: Set Up Unit Testing in a Controller

Solution: Set Up Unit Testing in a Controller

Unit Testing HttpGet("get-all-publishers")] in PublishersController

Challenge: Unit Testing [HttpGet("get-publisher-by-id/{id}")]

Solution: Unit Testing [HttpGet("get-publisher-by-id/{id}")]

Unit Testing [HttpPost("add-publisher")] in PublishersController

Unit Testing [HttpDelete("delete-publisher-by-id/{id}")] in PublishersController

Summary of Unit Testing

Quiz - Unit Testing Web APIs using NUnit

Introduction of Token Based Authentication

Authentication vs Authorization

Traditional vs Token Based Authentication

Adding Identity Tables using Entity Framework

Configuring JWT in Startup.cs

Setting up Authentication Controller

Registering a New User

Generating an Access & Refresh Token

Logging In and Authorizing Users

Refreshing Tokens

Adding Role-based Authentication

Summary of Token Based Authentication

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