Kemal Birer - ASP.NET Core for Jobseekers: Build Career in Designing Cross-Platform Web Applications Using Razor and Entity Framework Core

My beloved Wife: Emine Bekta Birer

Kemal Birerhas a bachelors degree in Mathematics and Computer Science. He has been working as a developer in the industry for 15+ years in different domains such as ERP, health care, GIS, and e-government.

Prajeesh Prathapis an experienced technologist specializing in building web scale, cloud-native applications with special interest in event-driven and distributed systems. He is currently working for the IT and Care industry in Netherlands as a product owner for the platform team specializing in setting up the containerized environments, CI/CD using Azure DevOps, observability platforms, and so on. He is a regular speaker at numerous technology conferences and has authored various video courses on Reactive Microservices in .NET Core, Continuous Delivery with VSTS, and PowerShell DSC.

My gratitude goes to Shali Deeraj and other dear people involved with the development of the book at BPB Publications for providing me with great support and Prajeesh Prathap for the technical review.

This book covers the different aspects of the ASP.NET Core framework and fundamentals of web application development from the perspective of applying jobs that need ASP.NET Core knowledge. Not only does it provide the theory and principles of ASP.NET Core, but also useful practical tips about general software development so the reader can have self-confidence while applying for a job that requires ASP.NET Core skills. It teaches backend development as the main subject but also shows the basics of frontend development.

This book is for individuals who are new to the software world and would like to make a start with ASP.NET Core or developers who have experience with other technologies and would like to learn and switch to ASP.NET Core.

This book is divided into 14 chapters. They will cover general information about basic knowledge of the .NET Core framework, basics of web development with HTML, CSS and JavaScript, server-side development, asynchronous programming, security, optimization techniques, accessing data, software architectures with ASP.NET Core, and learn them for preparing for a job interview.

, introduces the ASP.NET Core framework along with its features and evolution of the ASP.NET framework.

, covers setting up the development environment for Windows, Linux, and MacOS by introducing .NET CLI and various integrated development environments such as Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code.

, covers running and debugging ASP.NET Core applications along with deploying them to a running environment with different operating systems and server options. It also introduces reverse proxies and their roles in an environment.