Section outline

• Select section Day 1: Introduction & .NET Core Fundamentals (7 hours)

  Day 1: Introduction & .NET Core Fundamentals (7 hours)

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  Session 1: Introduction to .NET Core 

  • Evolution of .NET and .NET Core
  • .NET SDKs and Runtimes
  • Visual Studio & Visual Studio Code setup

  Session 2: .NET 6.0 SDK & CLI 

  • Installation & Version Management
  • Command-Line Interface (CLI) Commands
  • NuGet Package Management

  Session 3: Application Startup & Configuration 

  • Hosting Environments & Middleware
  • Dependency Injection in ASP.NET Core
  • Request Pipeline & Services

  Session 4: Hands-on Lab – Setting Up a .NET Core Project 
• Select section Day 2: Application Architecture & Web APIs (7 hours)

  Day 2: Application Architecture & Web APIs (7 hours)

  Session 5: Application Architecture & RESTful Services 

  • Request Routing & Endpoint Routing
  • RESTful API Design Principles
  • Attribute-Based Routing & Route Constraints

  Session 6: API Development with ASP.NET Core 

  • Controllers & Action Results
  • Models, Dependency Inversion, and Data Persistence

  Session 7: Hands-on Lab – Building a RESTful Web API 

  Session 8: OpenAPI & API Documentation 

  • Using Swagger (OpenAPI) for API Documentation
• Select section Day 3: Data Access, Validation & Error Handling (7 hours)

  Day 3: Data Access, Validation & Error Handling (7 hours)

  Session 9: Entity Framework Core 

  • Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) & Database Context
  • Asynchronous Data Access with EF Core

  Session 10: Data Validation & Model Binding 

  • Data Annotations & Validation Techniques

  Session 11: Error Handling & Logging 

  • Best Practices for Exception Handling
  • Using ILogger & NLog for Application Logging

  Session 12: Hands-on Lab – Implementing Data Validation & Logging 
• Select section Day 4: Security & Authentication (7 hours)

  Day 4: Security & Authentication (7 hours)

  Session 13: Securing Web APIs 

  • Authentication vs Authorization
  • Configuring Authentication for APIs

  Session 14: Implementing JWT & OAuth 2.0 

  • JSON Web Tokens (JWT)
  • OAuth 2.0 & OpenID Connect (Theory & Practice)

  Session 15: Hands-on Lab – Securing an API with JWT Authentication 

  Session 16: Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) & API Security Best Practices 
• Select section Day 5: Testing & Deployment (7 hours)

  Day 5: Testing & Deployment (7 hours)

  Session 17: Unit Testing & Integration Testing 

  • xUnit for Unit Testing
  • Testing Controllers & API Endpoints

  Session 18: Continuous Integration & Deployment 

  • Using GitHub Actions for CI/CD
  • Automating Build & Deployment Pipelines

  Session 19: Deploying ASP.NET Core Applications 

  • dotnet publish, Kestrel, and IIS Deployment

  Session 20: Hands-on Lab – Deploying a Web API to Production