Introduction to ASP.NET Core

• Introduction to .NET Core
• ASP.NET Core essentials
• Creating a simple ASP.NET Core web app
• A closer look at ASP.NET Core middleware
• Creating custom OWIN middleware components

Getting Started with MVC

• Introduction to ASP.NET Core MVC
• Understanding controllers
• Understanding views
• Layout pages
• A closer look at Razor syntax

Creating a Complete ASP.NET MVC Application

• Design considerations
• Defining models and views
• Handling form submissions
• Additional techniques
• Asynchronous action methods

Tag Helpers

• Introduction to tag helpers
• UI tag helpers
• Link and script tag helpers
• Environment tag helper
• Cache tag helper

Structuring ASP.NET Core MVC Applications

• Design considerations
• Defining the domain model
• Defining the Web application

Dependency Injection, Configuration, and Entity Framework

• Dependency injection principles
• DI in ASP.NET Core
• Configuration in ASP.NET Core
• Using Entity Framework Core

Test Driven Development with ASP Core MVC

• TDD principles
• Unit testing frameworks for .NET Core
• XUnit.net walkthrough
• Unit testing ASP.NET MVC controllers
• Mocking

Defining Custom Tag Helpers

• Custom tag helpers
• Tag attributes
• Additional techniques
• Worked example

Implementing Navigation

• Defining view-model classes
• Implementing data filtering in a controller
• Understanding the routing mechanism
• Adding custom entries to a route table
• Defining defaults, parameters, and validation
• Generating URLs and hyperlinks
• Custom route constraints

State Management

Using hidden fields

• Session and application state
• Custom model bindings

Creating RESTful Services using Web API

• Overview of Web API
• Building servers and clients
• Content negotiation
• Attribute routing
• Custom model binding
• Invoking RESTful services from Ajax clients

Security using ASP.NET Identity

• Security concepts
• Overview of ASP.NET Identity
• Customization possibilities using ASP.NET Identity

Creating Single Page Applications

• Overview of SPAs
• Using GruntJS, NPM, and Bower support
• Overview of AngularJS and Bootstrap