Adam Freeman - Essential Angular for ASP.NET Core MVC 3: A Practical Guide to Successfully Using Both in Your Projects

Adam Freeman

Essential Angular for ASP.NET Core MVC 3

A Practical Guide to Successfully Using Both in Your Projects

2nd ed.

Adam Freeman

London, UK

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5284-0

Adam Freeman 2019

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Dedicated to my lovely wife, Jacqui Griffyth.

(And also to Peanut.)

Table of Contents

About the Author and About the Technical Reviewer

About the Author

Adam Freeman

is an experienced IT professional who has held senior positions in a range of companies, most recently serving as chief technology officer and chief operating officer of a global bank. Now retired, he spends his time writing and long-distance running.

About the Technical Reviewer

Fabio Claudio Ferracchiati

is a senior consultant and a senior analyst/developer using Microsoft technologies. He works for BluArancio ( www.bluarancio.com ). He is a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer for .NET, a Microsoft Certified Application Developer for .NET, a Microsoft Certified Professional, and a prolific author and technical reviewer. Over the past ten years, hes written articles for Italian and international magazines and coauthored more than ten books on a variety of computer topics.

This book is about using Angular and ASP.NET Core MVC together to create rich applications. Individually, each of these frameworks is powerful and feature-rich, but using them together combines the dynamic flexibility of Angular with the solid infrastructure of ASP.NET Core MVC.

This book is for ASP.NET Core MVC developers who want to add Angular to their projects but dont know where to start. Angular is a complex framework that can be overwhelming to learn, and this book provides a solid foundation by using ASP.NET Core MVC to support an Angular application. By the end of this book, you will understand how ASP.NET Core MVC and Angular can work together, and you will have gained a basic understanding of how Angular development works.

This book explains how to use Angular in an ASP.NET Core MVC project. I demonstrate how to create a Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code project that contains Angular and ASP.NET Core MVC, and I show you how to get them working together. I show you how to use Entity Framework Core to store the application data and ASP.NET Core Identity to authenticate and authorize users. Each ASP.NET Core package adds its complexities, and I show you how these can be managed to deliver functionality to Angular.

This book also introduces Angular development, focusing on just those features that are required by most applications. I explain how Angular applications work, how to structure an Angular application, and how individual building blocks can collaborate to create complex features.

The examples are based around SportsStore, which will be familiar if you have read any of my other books. SportsStore is a fictional online store that contains the features that most projects need. The SportsStore examples in this book have been adapted so that I can highlight problems between Angular and ASP.NET Core MVC and explain how to solve them.

This book is not a deep-dive into Angular or ASP.NET Core MVC. I assume you are already familiar with C# and ASP.NET Core MVC development, and I describe only the essential Angular features.

I have written other books that provide the deep-dive for each framework. If you are unfamiliar with ASP.NET Core MVC development, then you should read Pro ASP.NET Core MVC before this book. Once you have mastered the basics of Angular development, then Pro Angular provides a comprehensive tour of Angular features. There are different editions of both of these books, so you should take care to choose the editions that cover the Angular and ASP.NET Core MVC versions you use.