Building an API with ASP.NET Core

By Shawn Wildermuth
The skill of building a web-facing API isn’t optional anymore. Whether you’re building a web site, mobile app, SPA, or enterprise tool, building a well-designed API is required.
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(342)
Level
Beginner
Updated
Oct 21, 2020
Duration
2h 33m
Table of contents
Course Overview
Course Overview 1m
Pragmatic Rest
Where We're Headed 1m How Does HTTP Work? 5m What Is REST? 3m What Are Resources? 2m Designing the API 2m Designing the URI 2m Getting the Starting Project 3m Using Postman 3m Trip Around the Project 4m What We've Learned 1m
Building Your First API
Introduction 1m Creating an Action 3m Status Codes 2m Using Status Codes 3m Using GET for Collections 5m Returning Models Instead of Entities 7m Getting an Individual Item 4m Returning Related Data 4m Using Query Strings 4m Implementing Searching 3m What We've Learned 1m
Modifying Data
URI Design 3m Model Binding 4m Implementing POST 6m Adding Model Validation 5m Implementing PUT 5m Implementing DELETE 3m What We’ve Learned 1m
Creating Association APIs
Introduction 1m Create an Association Controller 4m GET an Individual Talk 2m POST a New Talk 10m Add Validation 2m PUT to Update a Talk 6m DELETE a Talk 3m What We've Learned 1m
Functional APIs
Introduction 0m Functional APIs 2m Creating a Functional API 5m What We’ve Learned 1m
Versioning Your API
Introduction 2m Types of Versioning 2m Introducing Versioning 5m Versioning Actions 4m Versioning Controllers 3m Versioning with Headers 3m Using Multiple Versioning Methods 2m URL Versioning 3m Versioning Conventions 3m Other Versioning Methods 1m What We've Learned 1m
Description
Course info
Rating
(342)
Level
Beginner
Updated
Oct 21, 2020
Duration
2h 33m
Description

As technology advances, the requirements do as well. In this course, Building an API with ASP.NET Core, you will learn foundational knowledge on how to build an API from start to finish. First, you will explore how to use ASP.NET Core to build reliable APIs. Next, you will discover REST and when to be pragmatic about it. Finally, you will learn how to version your APIs. When you are finished with this course, you will know how to implement an API that is easy to use, and easy to maintain.

About the author
Shawn Wildermuth
About the author

Shawn Wildermuth has been tinkering with computers and software since he got a Vic-20 back in the early '80s. As a Microsoft MVP since 2002, he's also involved with Microsoft as an ASP.NET Insider and ClientDev Insider.

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Section Introduction Transcripts
Section Introduction Transcripts

Course Overview
Hi everyone. My name is Shawn Wildermuth, and welcome to my course, Building an API with ASP.NET Core. I'm a Microsoft MVP, instructor, and developer. The skill of building a web-facing API isn't optional anymore. Whether you're building a website, a mobile app, a SPA, or an enterprise tool, building a well-designed API is required. In this course, I'm going to introduce you to REST, we're going to design and build an API from start to finish, and show you how to version your API too. Some of the major topics we'll cover include use ASP.NET Core to build reliable APIs, understand REST and when to be pragmatic about it, how to use models and validation, and how to version your APIs. By the end of this course, you'll know how to implement an API that's easy to use and easy to maintain. Before beginning with this course, you should be familiar with ASP.NET Core and Entity Framework Core. I hope you'll join me on this journey to learn to create an API with ASP.NET Core with my Building an API with ASP.NET Core course here at Pluralsight.

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