Modern Web Development with ASP.NET Core 3 - Second Edition

So, my new book is out now ! The title changed recently from Mastering ASP.NET Core 3 – Second Edition to Modern Web Development with ASP.NET Core 3 – Second Edition . It was Packt’ s decision, and I didn’t really bother about that, although I think the former was more accurate. It’s around 700 pages, and it is divided in three parts:

• The Fundamentals of ASP.NET Core

• Improving Productivity

• Advanced Topics

On the first part, we can find the following chapters:

1. Getting started with ASP.NET Core

2. Configuration

3. Routing

4. Controllers and Actions

5. Views

On the second part, we have:

1. Using Forms and Models

2. Implementing Razor Pages

3. API Controllers

4. Reusable Components

5. Understanding Filters

6. Security

Finally, on the third and last:

1. Logging, Tracing, and Diagnostics

2. Understanding How Testing Works

3. Client-Side Development

4. Improving Performance and Scalability

5. Real-Time Communication

6. Introducing Blazor

7. gRPC and Other Topics

8. Application Deployment

There is also an appendix on the dotnet tool.

I’d say the highlights are:

• Configuration and feature management

• API controllers including versioning and OData

• Razor Pages

• SignalR

• Blazor

• gRPC

The technical reviewers were Alvin Ashcraft (Microsoft MVP and world famous for Morning Dew ) and Prakash Tripathi (Microsoft MVP too).

Should you wish to buy it in the next days, there is a discount code that you can use that will grant you a 50% discount: WEBDEV50 .

I hope you enjoy it and I’d like to hear from you about the book!