ASP.NET CORE WEB API | The Complete Guide

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Before You Get Started

Lecture 1: How to use any version of .NET?

Chapter 2: Introduction to Web API

Lecture 1: Getting Started

Lecture 2: Installing Asp.Net Core SDK and Runtime

Lecture 3: New Web API project with Visual Studio

Lecture 4: Default Asp.Net Core Project Files

Lecture 5: Testing the Web API Project with Postman and Swagger

Lecture 6: Summary

Chapter 3: Building Your First Asp.Net Core API

Lecture 1: Getting Started

Lecture 2: Adding the Book Model

Lecture 3: Adding Your EF Core DB Context

Lecture 4: Adding Your First EF Core Migration

Lecture 5: Seeding Your Database With Data

Lecture 6: Adding Your First Web API Controller

Lecture 7: Adding a New Book [HttpPost]

Lecture 8: Listing All Books [HttpGet]

Lecture 9: Updating an Existing Book [HttpPut]

Lecture 10: Deleting an Existing Book [HttpDelete]

Lecture 11: Summary

Chapter 4: Working with Relational Data using Entity Framework

Lecture 1: Getting Started with Relational Data Management

Lecture 2: One-to-Many Relationships in Entity Framework Core

Lecture 3: Many-to-Many Relationships in Entity Framework Core

Lecture 4: Adding Author and Publisher Services to Web API

Lecture 5: Adding Relational Data With [HttpPost]

Lecture 6: Getting Authors of a Book with [HttpGet]

Lecture 7: Getting Books of an Author with [HttpGet]

Lecture 8: Getting Books of a Publisher including Authors

Lecture 9: Deleting Relational Data With Entity Framework Core

Lecture 10: Summary

Lecture 11: Responses and status codes

Lecture 12: HTTP Response Status Codes

Lecture 13: Try-Catch-Finally block

Lecture 14: Throwing custom exceptions

Lecture 15: Global error handling

Lecture 16: Custom global error handling

Lecture 17: Summary of Error and Exception Handling

Chapter 5: Controller Action Return Types

Lecture 1: Introduction to Controller Action Return Types

Lecture 2: Specific Type

Lecture 3: IActionResult

Lecture 4: ActionResult<Type>

Lecture 5: Custom Return Type

Lecture 6: Summary of Controller Action Return Types

Chapter 6: Sorting, Filtering and Paging

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Adding Server Side Sorting

Lecture 3: Adding Server Side Filtering

Lecture 4: Adding Server Side Paging

Lecture 5: Summary

Chapter 7: Web API Versioning

Lecture 1: Getting Started

Lecture 2: Setting up Versioning in .NET Web API

Lecture 3: Query String-Based versioning in Web API

Lecture 4: URL Based Versioning

Lecture 5: HTTP Header-Based Versioning

Lecture 6: HTTP Media Type-Based Versioning

Lecture 7: Summary

Chapter 8: Web API Logging with Serilog

Lecture 1: Introduction to Logging

Lecture 2: The What, Why and How of Logging

Lecture 3: Setting up Serilog in Web API

Lecture 4: Logging to a File using Serilog

Lecture 5: Adding a new Log table using EFCore migrations

Lecture 6: Logging to an SQL Table using Serilog

Lecture 7: Retreiving all logs from the database

Lecture 8: Summary of Logging

Chapter 9: Unit Testing Web APIs using NUnit

Lecture 1: Introduction to Unit Testing

Lecture 2: Choosing a Unit Testing Framework

Lecture 3: Setting up Unit Testing Environment

Lecture 4: Setting Up Unit Testing In-Memory DB

Lecture 5: Unit Testing GetAllPublishers in PublishersService

Lecture 6: Challenge: Unit Testing GetPublisherById in PublishersService

Lecture 7: Solution: Unit Testing GetPublisherById in PublishersService

Lecture 8: Unit Testing AddPublisher in PublishersService

Lecture 9: Unit Testing GetPublisherData method in PublishersService

Lecture 10: Unit Testing DeletePublisherById method in PublishersService

Lecture 11: Challenge: Set Up Unit Testing in a Controller

Lecture 12: Solution: Set Up Unit Testing in a Controller

Lecture 13: Unit Testing HttpGet("get-all-publishers")] in PublishersController

Lecture 14: Challenge: Unit Testing [HttpGet("get-publisher-by-id/{id}")]

Lecture 15: Solution: Unit Testing [HttpGet("get-publisher-by-id/{id}")]

Lecture 16: Unit Testing [HttpPost("add-publisher")] in PublishersController

Lecture 17: Unit Testing [HttpDelete("delete-publisher-by-id/{id}")] in PublishersController

Lecture 18: Summary of Unit Testing

Chapter 10: Securing Web APIs

Lecture 1: Introduction of Token Based Authentication

Lecture 2: Authentication vs Authorization

Lecture 3: Traditional vs Token Based Authentication

Lecture 4: Adding Identity Tables using Entity Framework

Lecture 5: Configuring JWT in Startup.cs

Lecture 6: Setting up Authentication Controller

Lecture 7: Registering a New User