Customizing ASP.NET Core 5.0

Microsoft’s ASP.NET Core is a powerful web framework full of hidden features that this book will help you to understand. You’ll get hands-on with customizing ASP.NET Core to suit your application development needs with the help of practical examples and best practices.

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A guide to discovering the hidden behaviors of ASP.NET Core that can be customized to optimize your .NET 5 applications

Key Features

Customize the default behavior of ASP.NET Core to get the most out of the framework
Enhance the app configuration, change the default dependency injection, and build your own tag helpers
Discover best practices for configuring ASP.NET Core, from user interface design to hosting it on platforms

Book DescriptionASP.NET Core is the most powerful Microsoft web framework. Although it’s full of rich features, sometimes the default configurations can be a bottleneck and need to be customized to suit the nature and scale of your app. If you’re an intermediate-level .NET developer who wants to extend .NET Core to multiple use cases, it's important to customize these features so that the framework works for you effectively.

Customizing ASP.NET Core 5.0 covers core features that can be customized for developing optimized apps. The customization techniques are also updated to work with the latest .NET 5 framework.

You’ll learn essential concepts relating to optimizing the framework such as configuration, dependency injection, routing, action filters, and more. As you progress, you’ll be able to create custom solutions that meet the needs of your use case with ASP.NET Core. Later chapters will cover expert techniques and best practices for using the framework for your app development needs, from UI design to hosting. Finally, you’ll focus on the new endpoint routing in ASP.NET Core to build custom endpoints and add third-party endpoints to your web apps for processing requests faster.

By the end of this application development book, you’ll have the skills you need to be able to customize ASP.NET Core to develop robust optimized apps.

What you will learn

Explore various application configurations and providers in ASP.NET Core 5
Understand dependency injection in .NET and learn how to add third-party DI containers
Discover the concept of middleware and write your own middleware for ASP.NET Core apps
Create various API output formats in your API-driven projects
Get familiar with different hosting models for your ASP.NET Core app
Develop custom routing endpoints and add third-party endpoints
Configure WebHostBuilder effectively for your web applications

Who this book is forThis .NET 5 book is for .NET developers who need to change the default behaviors of the framework to help improve the performance of their applications. Intermediate-level knowledge of ASP.NET Core and C# is required before getting started with the book.