Customizing ASP.NET Core 6.0: Learn to turn the right screws to optimize ASP.NET Core applications for better performance

by Jurgen Gutsch, Damien Bowden, Ed Price

Overview

ASP.NET Core is packed full of hidden features for building sophisticated web applications – but if you don’t know how to customize it, you’re not making the most of its capabilities. Customizing ASP.NET Core 6.0 is a book that will teach you all about tweaking the knobs at various layers and take experienced programmers’ skills to a new level.
This updated second edition covers the latest features and changes in the .NET 6 LTS version, along with new insights and customization techniques for important topics such as authentication and authorization. You’ll also learn how to work with caches and change the default behavior of ASP.NET Core apps.
This book will show you the essential concepts relating to tweaking the framework, such as configuration, dependency injection, routing, action filters, and more. As you progress, you'll be able to create custom solutions that meet the needs of your use case with ASP.NET Core. Later chapters will cover expert techniques and best practices for using the framework for your app development needs, from UI design to hosting. Finally, you'll focus on the new endpoint routing in ASP.NET Core to build custom endpoints and add third-party endpoints to your web apps for processing requests faster.
By the end of this book, you'll be able to customize ASP.NET Core to develop better, more robust apps.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781803243818
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	12/31/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	204
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

Jurgen Gutsch is a .NET-addicted web developer. He has worked with .NET and ASP.NET since the early versions in 2002. Before that, he wrote server-side web applications using classic ASP. He is also an active part of the .NET developer community. Jurgen writes for the dotnetpro magazine, one of the most popular German-speaking developer magazines. He also publishes articles in English on his blog, ASP.NET Hacker, and contributes to several open source projects. Jurgen has been a Microsoft MVP since 2015.
The best way to contact him is by using Twitter at sharpcms.
He works as a developer, consultant, and trainer for the digital agency YOO Inc., located in Basel, Switzerland. YOO Inc. serves national as well as international clients and specializes in creating custom digital solutions for distinct business needs.


Ed Price is a Senior Program Manager in Engineering at Microsoft, with an MBA in technology management. He leads Microsoft's efforts to publish Reference Architectures on the Azure Architecture Center. Previously, he drove datacenter deployment and customer feedback, and he ran Microsoft's customer feedback programs for Azure development, Service Fabric, IoT, Functions, and Visual Studio. He was also a technical writer at Microsoft for 6 years and helped lead TechNet Wiki. He is the co-author of five books, including Learn to Program with Small Basic and ASP.NET Core 5 for Beginners from Packt.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

1. Customizing Logging
2. Customizing App Configuration
3. Customizing Dependency Injection
4. Configuring and Customizing HTTPS with Kestrel
5. Configuring WebHostBuilder
6. Using Different Hosting Models
7. Using IHostedService and BackgroundService
8. Writing Custom Middleware
9. Working with Endpoint Routing
10. Customizing ASP.NET Core Identity
11. Configuring Identity Management
12. Content Negotiation Using a Custom OutputFormatter
13. Managing Inputs with Custom ModelBinder
14. Creating a Custom ActionFilter
15. Working with Caches
16. Creating Custom TagHelper