.NET 7 Web API & Entity Framework Jumpstart

About .NET 7 Web API & Entity Framework Jumpstart

The .NET framework is getting better and better and more important in the web development world nowadays. Almost every request I get for new web development projects is

asking for knowledge in .NET

, including Web API and Entity Framework. So, knowing the fundamentals of back-end web development with .NET can be highly beneficial to your career. And that’s where this course comes in. In a short period of time, you will

learn how to set up a Web API

, make restful calls to this Web API and also

save data persistently with Entity Framework

,

Code-First Migration

, a

SQL Server

database, and all three types of

relationships

in this database. We will get right to the point, you will see every single step of writing the necessary code and by the end of this course, you will have what it takes to say ‘yes’ to all the .NET project requests from any recruiter. The only tool you need in the beginning is

Visual Studio Code

which is available for free. We will use Visual Studio Code for our implementations and make calls to the Web API with the help of Swagger UI - an interface that lets you consume the API out-of-the-box, thanks to the latest version of the .NET framework. Later, we will also utilize

SQL Server Express

and the

SQL Server Management Studio

to manage our database. These are also available for free. The back-end application we’re going to build is a small

text-based role-playing game

where different users can register (we’re going to use

JSON web tokens for authentication

) and create their own characters like a mage or a knight, add some skills and a weapon, and also let the characters fight against each other to see who is the best of them all.

What You Will Learn

_Introduction_

Create your first Web API call

in less than 10 minutes

Initialize a

Git repository

for your source control _Web API_

The

Model-View-Controller

(MVC) pattern

Create

models

and

controllers

Attribute routing (with parameters)

The HTTP request methods

GET, POST, PUT & DELETE

Best practices

for your Web API like a

ServiceResponse

class and

Data-Transfer-Objects

(DTOs)

Map your models with

AutoMapper

_Entity Framework Core_

Object-Relational-Mapping

Code-First Migration

SQL Server Express

How to use a

DataContext

and a proper

ConnectionString

All previous

HTTP requests

with Entity Framework Core to

save your data in a SQL Server

database

Data Seeding

: Insert data with a migration programmatically _Authentication_

Token Authentication

with

JSON Web Tokens

Claims

Secure controllers with the

Authorize

attribute

Add

roles

to the users _Advanced Relationships with Entity Framework Core_

One-to-one

relationships

One-to-many

relationships

Many-to-many

relationships

Include

entities with Entity Framework Core

Get the

proper relations

between entities _More Than Just CRUD_

Start

automatic fights

Filter

and

order

RPG characters by their highscore This course has been

completely re-recorded with .NET 7

. The lectures with the older versions of the .NET (Core) Framework - .NET 6, 5 & .NET Core 3.1 - are still available for reference.

Your Instructor

My name is Patrick and I will be your instructor for this course. I’m a

web developer for over a decade

now, I have worked for big corporations and small teams, as an employee and a contractor and I just love to see the way Microsoft is going with .NET and how important it gets day by day. To this date, I was able to run

ten courses on web development

here on Udemy about ASP.NET, Blazor, single-page applications, Angular, and DevOps, with a total of

over 75.000 unique students

and

more than 10.000 reviews

. If you have any questions, feel free to connect. And if you still have any doubts, you have a

30-day money-back guarantee

, no questions asked. So, I hope you’re ready for your new skills and your new projects! ;) I’m looking forward to seeing you in the course! Course image: practicuum/Shutterstock