ASP.NET Core Web API – Zero to Hero [ASP.Net Core 5.0]

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Project Exercise

Chapter 2: Why exactly do we need the Web API

Lecture 1: What is the need of Web API? (The problem)

Lecture 2: What is the need of Web API? (The solution)

Lecture 3: What is Web API and which framework should we use for the development

Lecture 4: What is REST and RESTful Web APIs

Chapter 3: Fundamentals of HTTP, HTTP Verbs and Status Code

Lecture 1: What is HTTP and why we need to know about HTTP?

Lecture 2: HTTP Request and HTTP Response with its components

Lecture 3: HTTP Verbs or HTTP methods

Lecture 4: Status Code and their categories

Lecture 5: Frequently used Status Codes in Web API

Lecture 6: Demo: HTTP Request & Response

Chapter 4: System Setup

Lecture 1: List of all software required for Web API development

Lecture 2: Install the Dot Net Core framework and verify the installation

Lecture 3: Install the Visual Studio 2019 and Visual Studio Code (The Code Editor)

Lecture 4: Install the SQL Server

Lecture 5: Install SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)

Lecture 6: Install Postman (The Client tool for testing Web APIs)

Chapter 5: Introduction to Asp.Net Core Web API project

Lecture 1: Create your first Asp.Net Core Web API project using CLI- Command line interface

Lecture 2: Open the project files in Visual Studio Code

Lecture 3: Build the Asp.Net Core Web API project using CLI

Lecture 4: Run the Asp.Net Core Web API project using CLI

Lecture 5: Test the default APIs using Swagger, Browser and Postman

Lecture 6: Create, Build and Run the Web API Core project using Visual Studio 2019

Chapter 6: Explanation of Asp.Net Core Web API Project files

Lecture 1: Asp.Net Core Web API Project files

Lecture 2: launchSettings.json file in Asp.Net Core Web API

Lecture 3: csproj (Project file) in Asp.Net Core Web API

Chapter 7: Convert a Console application to Asp.Net Core Web API application (The Origin)

Lecture 1: Create a Dot Net Core Console application using Visual Studio

Lecture 2: Update the csproj file

Lecture 3: Add a Default Host Builder

Lecture 4: Add a Default Web Host Builder

Lecture 5: Setup the Startup class (Configure and ConfigureServices method)

Lecture 6: Setup the default route to access a resource

Lecture 7: Inject Web API services using AddControllers method

Lecture 8: Add a new controller in the application

Chapter 8: Middleware and HTTP Request Pipeline

Lecture 1: What is Middleware and HTTP Request Pipeline

Lecture 2: Working with Run(), Map(), Use() and Next() method

Lecture 3: Demo: Run() method in Middleware

Lecture 4: Demo: Use() & Next() method in Middleware

Lecture 5: Demo: Map() method in middleware

Lecture 6: Create Custom Middleware in a separate file

Lecture 7: Verify the Next() method in built-in middleware: Dig Asp.Net Core GitHub Repo

Chapter 9: Routing in Asp.Net Core Web API

Lecture 1: What is Routing in Asp.Net Core Web API

Lecture 2: How to enable the Routing in Asp.Net Core Web API

Lecture 3: Set first Route on Controller's Action method

Lecture 4: Working with Variables in Routing

Lecture 5: Working with Query String in Routing

Lecture 6: Setup multiple URLs for single resource (Action Method)

Lecture 7: Same URL for multiple resource (Is this Possible?)

Lecture 8: Token replacement in Routing

Lecture 9: Set the Base Route at the Controller level

Lecture 10: Route Constraints: Validate the route variables

Lecture 11: Route Constraints: Alpha & Regular Expression (regex)

Lecture 12: Best practices of RESTful URLs for CRUD operations

Chapter 10: Controller Action Return Type in Asp.Net Core

Lecture 1: Specific type

Lecture 2: IActionResult

Lecture 3: ActionResult<T>

Chapter 11: Built-In methods to return Response data with proper Status Code

Lecture 1: Return 200 status code

Lecture 2: Return 202 status code

Lecture 3: Return 400 status code

Lecture 4: Return 201 status code

Lecture 5: Return 301, 302 status code

Lecture 6: Return 404 status code

Lecture 7: Remaining built-in methods

Chapter 12: Model Binder – The process of binding the incoming request data to dot net types

Lecture 1: What is Model Binder?

Lecture 2: [BindProperty] attribute: Bind Incoming form-data to public properties

Lecture 3: [BindProperties] attribute

Lecture 4: Model binder's default way to bind the incoming request data with parameters

Lecture 5: [FromQuery] attribute: Bind the query string data

Lecture 6: [FromRoute] attribute: Bind the route data

Lecture 7: [FromBody] attribute: Bind the body data

Lecture 8: [FromForm] attribute: Bind the from-data

Lecture 9: [FromHeader] attribute: Bind the header data

Lecture 10: Custom Model Binder in Asp.Net Core Web API (Example -1)

Lecture 11: Custom Model Binder in Asp.Net Core Web API (Example -2)

Chapter 13: Dependency Injection

Lecture 1: What is Dependency Injection (DI)

Lecture 2: Working with Services without using Dependency Injection

Lecture 3: Singleton service lifetime using AddSingleton<> method

Lecture 4: Scoped service lifetime using AddScoped<> method

Lecture 5: Transient service lifetime using AddTransient<> method

Lecture 6: TryAddSingleton, TryAddScoped and TryAddTransient methods in DI

Lecture 7: Resolve the Service dependency directly in the Action Method

Chapter 14: Ream world Asp.Net Core Web API Application Development

Lecture 1: Start the development of Real world Asp.Net Core Web API application

Chapter 15: Installation and Setup the Entity Framework Core

Lecture 1: Introduction to Entity Framework Core

Lecture 2: Install Entity Framework Core in Asp.Net Core Web API application