20486: Developing ASP.NET Core MVC Web Applications

Objectives

• Describe the Microsoft Web Technologies stack and select an appropriate technology to use to develop any given application
• Design the architecture and implementation of a web application that will meet a set of functional requirements, user interface requirements, and address business models
• Configure the pipeline of ASP.NET Core web applications using middleware, and leverage dependency injection across MVC application
• Add Controllers to an MVC Application to manage user interaction, update models, and select and return Views
• Develop a web application that uses the ASP.NET Core routing engine to present friendly URLs and a logical navigation hierarchy to users
• Create Views in an MVC application that display and edit data and interact with Models and Controllers
• Create MVC Models and write code that implements business logic within Model methods, properties, and events
• Connect an ASP.NET Core application to a database using Entity Framework Core
• Implement a consistent look and feel across an entire MVC web application
• Write JavaScript code that runs on the client-side and utilizes the jQuery script library to optimize the responsiveness of an MVC web application
• Add client side packages and configure Task Runners
• Run unit tests and debugging tools against a web application in Visual Studio 2017
• Write an MVC application that authenticates and authorizes users to access content securely using Identity
• Build an MVC application that resists malicious attacks
• Use caching to accelerate responses to user requests
• Use SignalR to enable two-way communication between client and server
• Describe what a Web API is and why developers might add a Web API to an application
• Describe how to package and deploy an ASP.NET Core MVC web application from a development computer to a web server