Ricardo Peres - Modern Web Development with ASP.NET Core 3: An end to end guide covering the latest features of Visual Studio 2019, Blazor and Entity Framework, 2nd Edition

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Ricardo Peres is a Portuguese developer, blogger, and book author and is currently a team leader at Dixons Carphone. He has over 20 years of experience in software development and his interests include distributed systems, architectures, design patterns, and .NET development. He won the Microsoft MVP award in 2015 and has held this title up to 2020.

He also authored Entity Framework Core CookbookSecond Edition and Mastering ASP.NET Core 2.0, and was a technical reviewer for Learning NHibernate 4 for Packt. He also contributed to Syncfusion's Succinctly collection, with titles on .NET development.
Ricardo maintains a blogDevelopment With A Dotwhere he writes about technical issues. You can catch up with him on Twitter at @rjperes75.

Alvin Ashcraft is a developer who lives near Philadelphia. He has spent his 25-year career building software with C#, Visual Studio, WPF, ASP.NET , and more. He has been awarded the Microsoft MVP title nine times. You can find his daily links for .NET developers on his blog, Morning Dew. He works as a principal software engineer for Allscripts, building healthcare software. He was previously employed by software companies, including Oracle. He has reviewed other titles for Packt Publishing, including C# 8 and .NET Core 3 Projects Using Azure, Mastering Entity Framework Core 2.0, and LearnASP.NETCore 3.

Prakash Tripathi is a technical manager by profession and a speaker and author by passion. He has extensive experience in the design, development, maintenance, and support of enterprise applications, primarily using Microsoft technologies and platforms. He is active in technical communities and has been awarded the Microsoft MVP title four times in a row since 2016. He holds a master's degree in computer applications from MANIT Bhopal, India.

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In this book, we will discuss the new and latest features that have been added by Microsoft to ASP.NET Core 3.

We will delve deep into the applications and understand how to apply them for the various new tools that have been introduced. We will be looking at Blazor, gRPC, the dotnet tools, error handling methods, and Razor Pages. We have so many new topics to look at this time, so it is going to be one hell of a joyride. Sit back and enjoy!

If you are a developer with basic knowledge of the ASP.NET MVC framework and want to build powerful applications, then this book is for you. Developers who want to explore the latest changes in ASP.NET Core 3.0 to build professional-level applications will also find this book useful. Familiarity with C#, ASP.NET Core, HTML, and CSS is expected in order to get the most out of this book.

, Getting Started with ASP.NET Core, e xplains the very basics of .NET and ASP.NET Core, including the MVC pattern, which is the typical usage pattern of ASP.NET Core.

, Configuration , presents you with the configuration options available to .NET/ASP.NET Core developers.