Building RESTful Web APIs with ASP.NET Core 3.1

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Web API and HTTP

Lecture 1: Repository of the Course

Lecture 2: Introduction

Lecture 3: What is an API?

Lecture 4: What is REST?

Lecture 5: Anatomy of an HTTP Request

Lecture 6: HTTP Methods

Lecture 7: HTTP Status Codes

Lecture 8: Summary

Chapter 2: Introduction to ASP.NET Core and Visual Studio

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Introduction to ASP.NET Core

Lecture 3: Installing Visual Studio

Lecture 4: Installing Entity Framework Core Tool

Lecture 5: Installing Visual Studio Code

Lecture 6: Installing Postman

Lecture 7: Summary

Chapter 3: Fundamentals of ASP.NET Core and Web API

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Preparing the Repository

Lecture 3: Controllers and Actions

Lecture 4: Routing Rules

Lecture 5: Return Types from an Action

Lecture 6: Async

Lecture 7: Introduction to Model Binding

Lecture 8: Validating Models

Lecture 9: Custom Validations

Lecture 10: Dependency Injection

Lecture 11: Services

Lecture 12: Creating a Resource

Lecture 13: Loggers

Lecture 14: Middleware

Lecture 15: Filters

Lecture 16: Custom Filters – Global Filters

Lecture 17: Adding XML Support – Accept, Content-Type and Content-Negotiation

Lecture 18: Recurring Background Tasks with IHostedService

Lecture 19: Summary

Chapter 4: Resource Manipulation

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Clean-Up

Lecture 3: Introduction to Entity Framework Core

Lecture 4: Configuring EF Core

Lecture 5: Creating Genres

Lecture 6: Data Transfer Objects and Automapper

Lecture 7: Updating Genres

Lecture 8: Deleting Genres

Lecture 9: Person Entity

Lecture 10: Posting Files to the Web API

Lecture 11: Validating Files

Lecture 12: Saving Files in Azure Storage

Lecture 13: Saving Files Locally (optional)

Lecture 14: Updating and Deleting People

Lecture 15: HTTP Patch and JSON Patch

Lecture 16: Pagination

Lecture 17: Movie Entity

Lecture 18: Many to Many Relationship and Custom Model Binder

Lecture 19: Filtering

Lecture 20: Related Data

Lecture 21: Ordering

Lecture 22: Background Tasks with Entity Framework Core

Lecture 23: Summary

Chapter 5: Configurations

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Introduction to Configurations

Lecture 3: Configuration Providers

Lecture 4: User Secrets

Lecture 5: Summary

Chapter 6: Security

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Configuring Identity

Lecture 3: Generating JSON Web Tokens

Lecture 4: Refresh Tokens

Lecture 5: Roles

Lecture 6: Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)

Lecture 7: Encryption

Lecture 8: Hashing

Lecture 9: HTTPS

Lecture 10: Summary

Chapter 7: Advanced Scenarios

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Swagger (OpenAPI) for Documenting your Web API

Lecture 3: HATEOAS

Lecture 4: HATEOAS with Filters

Lecture 5: Spatial Queries

Lecture 6: IActionConstraint and Versioning the API

Lecture 7: Custom Base Controller

Lecture 8: Summary

Chapter 8: Testing

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Clean Up

Lecture 3: Basic Concepts

Lecture 4: Automatic Tests

Lecture 5: Unit Testing

Lecture 6: Mocks and Dependencies

Lecture 7: Unit Testing the GenresController – EF Core in Memory and AutoMapper

Lecture 8: Unit Testing the PeopleController – Mocking IFormFile

Lecture 9: Unit Testing the MoviesController

Lecture 10: Unit Testing the AccountsController – UserManager and SignInManager

Lecture 11: Unit Testing the MovieTheatersController – LocalDb

Lecture 12: Integration Testing