Pro ASP.NET Core MVC

This is an exceptional book. As a lapsed ASP classic programmer who, after 15+ years of not coding, is trying to pick up ASP.Net Core and C# I have found the current web programming environment confusing. I have purchased and followed a few books, which have not approached the subject with such rigour and clarity. The author takes you step by step through the topics that you need to build on to gain an understanding of how to build structured ASP.Net MVC applications. The author leads you away from drag and drop/scaffolding development, and the refactoring pain that ensues, instead demonstrating how to create concise strongly typed solutions based on standard design patterns resulting in re-useable code and ease of testing. I found the book challenging, encouraging further research into techniques and concepts to fully appreciate the constructs that the author present to the reader. I have been following the exercises in the book, initially using Visual Studio 2015. However, after having to install a later version of PowerScript to complete an exercise a known issue with VS2015 forced me to upgrade to Visual Studio 2017, in itself a painless process. The author has published updates to this edition, available from the website, to accommodate VS 2017 and I have experienced no real issues since the upgrade.

This book is great. Gets you coding straight away no pages of waffle.It explains the concepts clearly. I'm a novice and this books is very easy to follow.

I have wasted money on this book - even though it is very well written. 'Microsoft Stack' software development is just a joke nowadays because as soon as a book is published, it is already out-of-date!

Pre ordered this book of a new and evolving technology. Way out of date before it was even released. Won't buy V2 Unless I get it for half price.

Great book, really wish when a physical book was purchased the ebook was included for free - especially for books of this size.

I am still reading this book but am extremely impressed. The author writes with clarity and is methodically covering this huge topic in an easily digestible manner. Even the sequencing of topics is highly tailored towards incremental learning. For instance he often writes mini-tutorials in a chapter for a related topic (like the Razor engine) just to give you enough acquaintance with it to understand the topic currently in focus. And he will note to expect a much deeper dive later in the book. In this way, the reader is following a virtuous "spiral" of learning, circulating around the breadth of ASP.Net Core MVC but with each turn going to a deeper level of detail, bolstered with concise and relevant examples. This is exactly how I learn best. He also comments on best practices, like how to separate the tasks that your controller versus model versus view should contain; or where your unit tests should live. He's pragmatic though, and where appropriate notes there may be other/different ways that are valid too (like unit testing approaches). I am a long time ASP.NET Web Forms / C# developer and I am eager to start coding new projects with this approach and anticipate referring back to this book for months to come.

This might be one of the best tech books I have ever read, everything is explained with clarity and with lots of insight. Bought it as I just changed jobs (was a Game Developer) to work on a company using ASP.NET, and this was an incredible ressource and I still read some chapters from time to time as everything is really organized and easy to follow. Had a bit of trouble on the SportsStore chapter as it used a lot of things we learn on the later chapters, but even then, the structure is great as you get to follow along, getting some concepts in place before diving on every little ASP.NET Core feature. I'm beyond impressed and would like to express my thanks to Adam Freeman for this wonderful book and the team at APRESS for getting this out.

Ottima guida,perfetta e completa. Per me che sto passando da webform ad aspettare Core ha risolto un sacco di problemi. Ottimi gli spunti e gli approfondimenti. Cercavo una guida in Italiano,ma questa credo sia l'unica guida professionale completa. Aspetto l'uscita per il 2.0 che sicuramente comprerò.

Zuerst werden die Grundlagen an einem Beispiel-Shop dargestellt. Hat man die Code-Examples verstanden und dafür parallel vielleicht noch ein eigenes Projekt in der Mache, kann eigentlich nichts schieflaufen. Das Killer-Argument aus Programmierer-Sicht für ASP.NET Core ist die klare Struktur, die vom Framework vorgegeben wird. Klingt erst mal nach Beschränkung, leuchtet aber ein, je mehr die Website an Funktionalität und Pages zunimmt. Ohne Kenntnis dessen, was das Framework dafür vom Coder "erwartet", ist ein sinnvolles Programmieren nicht mehr möglich. Dies wird vom Autor durchgehend erklärt, gezeigt und in den Beispielen auch umgesetzt. Wichtiger Punkt: Dependency Injection ist ein fester Bestandteil von ASP.NET Core und wird entsprechend näher erläutert. Andere wichtige allgemeine Techniken werden ebenfalls behandelt. Konsequent und verständlich ist auch die Darstellung vom Zusammenhang Model-ViewModel-View und der Request-Pipeline (wobei den ViewModels eigentlich ein eigener Ordner zusteht). FAZIT: Für ASP.NET Core absolute Empfehlung! Aber auch Nicht-Web-Developer können von dem Buch wegen der stringenten Darstellung moderner Techniken profitieren. WICHTIGER HINWEIS: Unter Visual Studio 2017 wird "project.json" nicht mehr verwendet. Für die Migration gibt es Anleitungen, Stichworte "project.json to csproj". Das Anpassen des Buch-Codes sollte kein Problem sein, da der Aufbau detailliert erklärt wird. Ich selber arbeite noch mit Visual Studio 2015.