ASP .Net MVC Quick Start

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Unit 1: Welcome and Overview

Lecture 1: The Story and Purpose of this course

Lecture 2: Introduction, Welcome, and Overview

Lecture 3: The evolution of this course and thoughts on the latest release

Lecture 4: Course Repository and Resources

Chapter 2: Unit 2: Getting Started: Setting up my Developer Machine

Lecture 1: Install Visual Studio Code

Lecture 2: Install Visual Studio 2022

Lecture 3: Add Some Extensions for Visual Studio 2022

Lecture 4: Install SQL Server Developer Edition

Lecture 5: Installing SQL Server Management Studio

Lecture 6: Verifying installation of SQL Server Data Tools

Lecture 7: Install GIT on your Windows machine [Linux and Mac likely have GIT already]

Chapter 3: Unit 3: Creating the Contact Manager Project

Lecture 1: Creating an MVC Project in .Net 6

Lecture 2: Ensure NuGet Packages are up to date

Lecture 3: Review, run, apply initial migration, change the connection string

Lecture 4: Create and Run the initial Migration

Chapter 4: Unit 4: Source Control

Lecture 1: Add a Local .gitignore file

Lecture 2: Creating the Local GIT Repository and Setting the Remote to GitHub

Lecture 3: Get a GitHub Account

Lecture 4: Create a new repository at GitHub

Lecture 5: Blow away your code and get it back

Chapter 5: Unit 5: Creating the Models (the "M" in MVC)

Lecture 1: Discuss Utilizing the Default Models Folder

Lecture 2: Create a "Models" Project For Reusability of your Models

Lecture 3: Create the States Model

Lecture 4: Create the Contact Model Part 1 – Constants and Properties

Lecture 5: Create the Contacts Model Part 2 – Annotations

Lecture 6: Commit changes and push to the Remote Repository

Chapter 6: Unit 6: Leveraging a new Database Project for Model creation

Lecture 1: Create a New Database Project

Lecture 2: Add References to Contact And State and Create a migration

Lecture 3: Update the Database and Review the Tables

Lecture 4: Rollback and Remove the Migration

Lecture 5: Add a Seed for States, then add the migration and apply it

Lecture 6: Commit and Push changes to the Remote repository

Chapter 7: Unit 7: Creating the Controllers and Scaffolding Views (the "C" and "V" of MVC)

Lecture 1: Create the States Controller and Scaffold Views

Lecture 2: Getting the DB Context Injected as a Service to the Contact Web Project

Lecture 3: Create the Contacts Controller and scaffold Views

Lecture 4: Fix the invalid state for Contacts Model on Create/Edit

Lecture 5: Create and Edit Contacts, fix some small code issues

Lecture 6: Rework Contacts Controller to get state data in one place

Lecture 7: Commit Changes and Push to Remote

Chapter 8: Unit 8: Use a feature branch developer flow to Implement Caching For States Data

Lecture 1: Create a feature branch

Lecture 2: Update States Controller To Cache States Data

Lecture 3: Update States Controller to Invalidate Cache on CRUD Operations

Lecture 4: Update Contacts Controller to pull States data from Cache first, then fall back

Lecture 5: Update Contacts controller to fix issues with disconnected data for states on Cr

Lecture 6: Update Contacts controller to fix issues with disconnected data for states on Cr

Chapter 9: Unit 9: Utilizing Services and Repositories and Adding Unit and Integration Test

Lecture 1: Use a Feature Branch and Create the Repositories Project

Lecture 2: Create the Services Project

Lecture 3: Create and Move operations for the States to the States Repository

Lecture 4: Create operations in the States Service and call to the service from the States

Lecture 5: Inject Services into the Program

Lecture 6: Add Unit Tests for States Service

Lecture 7: Finishing Up the Unit Testing for the States Service

Lecture 8: Add Integration Tests for the States Repository

Lecture 9: Continued Integration Testing for the States Repository

Lecture 10: Finalizing States Integration Testing

Lecture 11: Move Operations for Contacts to the Repository and Add Integration Tests

Lecture 12: Create Contacts Service Unit Tests and Replace Calls in the Controller

Lecture 13: Smoke Test and Push to remote, I have a conflict to resolve first

Lecture 14: Force push a history reset to main, then merge the PR

Chapter 10: Unit 10: Implement Authorization

Lecture 1: Lock down the controllers by authentication and authorization

Lecture 2: Add Authorization by Role to the states controller

Lecture 3: Create User Roles Service to ensure users and roles for admin user

Lecture 4: Wire up EnsureUsersAndRoles on Home Controller, Verify Admin access on states

Lecture 5: Demonstration: Contacts bleed across users/URLs are hackable

Lecture 6: Update Solution To Leverage the User Id In the Contacts Hierarchy

Lecture 7: Finish updates for Integration and Service Tests to Ensure Contact User Mapping

Lecture 8: Lock down contacts to specific users in the Controller

Lecture 9: Update the UI to hide the UserId from all contacts views – part 1 of 2

Lecture 10: Update the UI to hide the UserId from all contacts views – part 2 of 2

Lecture 11: Push changes and close some issues

Chapter 11: Unit 11: Updating the User Interface (UI)

Lecture 1: Adding Navigation Links and ensuring links only show to authorized users

Lecture 2: Update Navigation Links for highlighting the "active" tab

Lecture 3: Check in Changes, Update issues, create PR, Get the Datatables.js assets

Lecture 4: Add DataTables assets to the project

Lecture 5: Update the Contacts Index.cshtml view to leverage DataTables

Lecture 6: Create Prototype HTML for simple UI Testing

Lecture 7: Prototyping the new Create Contact Layout

Lecture 8: Clean up Contacts Create.cshtml view

Lecture 9: Clean up Contacts Edit.cshtml view

Lecture 10: Prototype Details Modal Dialog

Lecture 11: Implement Details Modal Dialog

Lecture 12: Implement Confirm Dialog for Delete

Lecture 13: Commit Changes, Push, Close issue and merge PR

Lecture 14: Clean up remaining pages and add Datatables for States Index

Lecture 15: Make the home page your own

Lecture 16: Push to GitHub and create two final issues