.NET Fundamentals

1. Introduction

• Recap the Most Important C# Notions
• History of .NET
• Types of Projects – Overview and Characteristics
• Tools for ASP.Net Development
• Create a Class Library in Visual Studio

2. ASP.Net Command Line Interface

• Overview of the ASP.Net Command Line Interface (CLI)
• Uncover the essential commands for project management and development

3. ASP.Net Core Concepts

• NuGet: overview, install packages, create your own package
• Dependency Injection
• Asynchronous Programming
• HTTP Communication in .NET

4. Application Programming Interface (API)

• Create a Web API
• Create a controller with CRUD operations and routing
• Explore Swagger
• Explore result types and understand IActionResult
• Add versioning to the API
• Create an HTTP call to another API, serialize, and deserialize the response
• Add logging
• Use settings from appsettings.json
• API best practices
• Health checks
• Postman
• Practice

5. MVC (Model-View-Controller)

• Create an MVC project
• Understand the architecture of the project
• Explore result types
• Run and test the project
• Scaffolding new pages
• MVC best practices
• Practice 2

6. Background Services

• What is a background service
• Create a background service
• Practice 3

7. Unit Testing

• xUnit & NUnit
• Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• Mock libraries
• Fluent assertions