A gentle introduction to the Core Entity Framework
- Changes against EF 6
- Migration and its insidiousness
- Create DAL in EF Core
ASP.NET Core Razor Pages
- Razor Pages as an alternative to MVC Core
- Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) versus Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern
- Basic use of Razor Pages
- Methods for processing requests
Configuration
- Changes against
ASP.NET 4 and destruction of the web.config file
- Configuration resources: files, environment variables, command line and more
- Object superstructure over key-value configuration
- Validation of configuration values
- Track changes to configuration files
- User Secrets - storage of sensitive configuration data during development
Email in ASP.NET Core
- Possibilities of sending e-mails (own server, external service)
- Altairis.Services.Mailing library as a ready-made solution and at the same time a demonstration of typical practice in .NET Core.
View Components
- View Components as a replacement for child actions
- Differences against Server Controls in
ASP.NET Web Forms
- Registration and creation of your own view components
Input validation and binding model
- Standard validation attributes
- Custom validation attributes for properties and entire entities
- IValidatableObject interface
- Client validation using JavaScript and CSS
Dynamic user interface generation
- Why create UI dynamically based on metadata
- Field level UI generation
- Generate UI at the model or part level
- Create your own templates
Internationalization
- Globalization and localization
- CultureInfo class, Neutral and Specific Cultures, Invariant Culture and why avoid it
- Culture settings, request localization middleware
- User interface localization using resources
- Localization of data annotations attributes
- Conventional Metadata Providers
Web application security
- Basic concepts and notions
- Authentication factors
- Cookie Authentication Middleware
- Claims-based Identity
ASP.NET Identity
- Basic use, user creation, login, logout
- Reset passwords as a weakness of application security and how to do it properly
- Work with roles and role-based authorization
- Two-factor authentication, use of one-time passwords
Customizing ASP.NET Identity
- Extension of user data
- Identity Stores
- Password storage and why not dig into it
- Migration of legacy users, or unfortunately you have to dig into it
- SignInManager class, logging and login restrictions
- SecurityStamp and its use, logging out of all sessions
- Login using external identity providers and other Facebook
- Phone number verification via SMS
- Login Approvals: login without passwords
- Use of custom claims in
ASP.NET Identity
ASP.NET Data Protection
- Use within .NET Core and custom use
- Default configuration and its changes
- Saving keys to the file system
- Storing keys in a database
