Upgrading Your ASP.NET Core 1.x Web API to 2.0
ASP.NET Core 2 incorporates a few important changes and new features. This course will teach you how to upgrade your existing web API, built with ASP.NET Core 1.x, to ASP.NET Core 2.0.
What you'll learn
ASP.NET Core has been updated to a 2.0 version and has many differences that will be covered here. In this course, Upgrading Your ASP.NET Core 1.x Web API to 2.0, you'll learn how to upgrade your existing web API, built with ASP.NET Core 1.x, to ASP.NET Core 2.0. First, you'll discover what these changes are and how .NET Core 2.0, the .NET Standard 2.0, and ASP.NET Core 2.0 are related. Next, you'll explore how to upgrade your existing project files and references to support new features like the run-time store. Finally, you'll learn about what you can change in regards to your code to make use of new ASP.NET Core 2.0 functionality. After this course, your existing ASP.NET Core 1.x web API will be fully upgraded to ASP.NET Core 2.0.
Table of contents
- Coming Up 1m
- Course Prerequisites 1m
- Tooling 1m
- The History of ASP.NET Core Development 3m
- Learning What's New in ASP.NET Core 2.0 2m
- Learning Why and When to Upgrade 3m
- The .NET Standard, .NET Core, and ASP.NET Core 7m
- Requirements for Upgrading to ASP.NET Core 2.0 1m
- Demo - Downloading and Installing the .NET Core 2.0 SDK 2m
- Summary 2m
- Coming Up 1m
- Introducing Our Demo Application 2m
- Demo - Upgrading to the .csproj/MSBuild-based Project System 1m
- Demo - Targeting .NET Core 2.0 6m
- ASP.NET Core 2 Metapackage and Runtime Store 4m
- Demo - Using the Microsoft.AspNetCore.All Metapackage and Runtime Store 2m
- Self-contained vs. Framework Dependent Applications 2m
- Demo - Working with CLI Tool References 3m
- Demo - Inspecting Additional Project File Tags 7m
- Summary 3m
- Coming Up 1m
- Demo - Inspecting Changes to the Bootstrapping Process 4m
- Demo - Inspecting Changes to Working with Logging 2m
- Demo - Changing the Default Logging Behavior 5m
- Demo - Inspecting Changes to Working with Configuration 2m
- Demo - Changing the Default Configuration Behavior 3m
- Entity Framework Core 2.0 2m
- Demo - Implications to the Entity Framework Core 2.0 Tooling 3m
- Summary 1m
About the author
Kevin Dockx is a freelance solution architect, author & consultant, living in Antwerp (Belgium). He's been working in the IT sector for more than 20 years, and his main focus these days is backend (API) architecture & security for web and Azure cloud applications, using .NET. He regularly speak at (inter)national conferences, he's a Microsoft MVP and has been for more than 10 years, and he's a keen proponent of open-source software. In his free time, he enjoys a glass of wine, travelling an... more