Real World ASP.NET Web API Services for .NET Framework
Why take this course?
🎉 Course Title: Real World ASP.NET Web API Services for .NET Framework 🛠️ Course Headline: Create production-ready, secure, professional Web API services designed for any kind of client integration
Course Description:
Become the Expert! 🚀
Are you a seasoned C#.NET developer ready to dive into the world of microservices with Microsoft's ASP.NET Web API 2.0 for the .NET Framework? You've come to the right place!
📚 The Challenge: While the official documentation provides a starting point, it often leaves developers searching for real-world examples that align with the practical needs of integrating with various clients and data center environments. The Internet offers a myriad of articles and snippets, yet finding those golden nuggets of practical wisdom can be like finding a needle in a haystack.
🧐 The Course: In this comprehensive course, I will guide you through the intricacies of ASP.NET Web API, ensuring you have a complete understanding of the platform components necessary for modern production-ready web services. The examples and exercises are drawn from scenarios I've encountered while creating commercial web services—challenges that you too will likely face!
Course Highlights:
- Securing Your API: Learn how to protect your parameters and sensitive data.
- Custom Extensions: Discover how to tailor the Web API to meet specific processing needs.
- Error Handling & Authentication/Authorization: Master robust error management and secure access to your API.
- Testing & Documentation: Understand the importance of testing your service with tools like Fiddler, PostMan, and Swagger, and documenting it effectively using Swashbuckle.
- Performance Optimization: Explore caching and asynchronous operations to improve your service's performance.
- Application Proxy Integration: Learn how to design your services to work seamlessly behind application proxies like load balancers, which are a staple in real-world web services.
Course Experience:
This course is designed to mimic a more intimate, one-on-one setting. Imagine having a friendly discussion with an expert, reviewing code together, and getting insights on the best practices and pitfalls to avoid while creating your Web API services. The goal is not just to understand the technical details but to foster a web service mindset, particularly for scenarios with unique cross-platform integration requirements.
Tech Stack:
This course focuses on the .NET Framework version of Web API, typically running under IIS on Windows servers. Please note that while the concepts are transferable, this course is not tailored for .NET Core users as the syntax and approach differ significantly.
Real World Focus:
My "Real World" courses are designed specifically for working developers who need to translate theoretical knowledge into practical application. They cover areas often overlooked in other courses, with a focus on solving actual problems encountered in typical business programming scenarios. This course assumes you're already proficient in programming and have experience building commercial systems—there's no time for "Hello, world" here!
Join me, Darren DeLoach, in this journey to master ASP.NET Web API services for the .NET Framework. Elevate your skills, create robust, secure, and professional web services, and become the go-to expert on your team! 🌟
Let's embark on this transformative learning experience together! 🚀✨
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Comidoc Review
Our Verdict
This course focuses on creating production-ready, secure Web API services with custom authentication. While the video quality could be better and the content is heavy, it covers essential topics like error handling, input validation, and authorization in depth. The template code provided will accelerate your learning curve and help you create your own extensions using the pipeline.
What We Liked
- Covers production-ready, secure Web API services designed for any kind of client integration
- Real-world clients integration using custom authentication tokens and HTTP headers
- Explains standards-based error handling, custom input validation, authentication, and authorization
- Includes template code to write your own extensions that plug in to the pipeline with extensive comments
Potential Drawbacks
- Intro videos and descriptions sometime go on unnecessary tangents
- Video quality is relatively poor at 720p with fuzzy text, audio quality can be distracting at times
- Lacks end-to-end examples encompassing business logic, database or coded invocations of web API
- Content-heavy with less practical real-world examples