What you'll learn

Getting a handle on the correct balance of simplicity and complexity is tough in any system, but learning when to use View Models and when to just use your data’s entities is a crucial skill every developer needs. In this course, Best Practices in ASP.NET Core: Entities, Validation, and View Models, you will learn foundational best practices to structure data in your applications. First, you will learn how entities work. Next, you will discover the role of View Models. Finally, you will explore how to validate data inside your application, on the server, and the client. When you're finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge of how to work with data inside your applications as it is needed to build, enterprise-scale websites in ASP.NET Core.