Advanced Web APIs with ASP.NET Core 8

Get a deep dive into building web APIs in ASP.NET Core 8, including hands-on practice with advanced data retrieval, securing APIs, API versioning, and more.

Introduction

• Upskill your ASP.NET Core 8 web APIs
• What you should know
• Sample application
• How to use the exercise files

1. Advanced Data Retrieval

• Introduction: Advanced data retrieval
• Paginating items
• Filtering items
• Searching items
• Sorting items
• Working with minimal APIs
• Challenge: Advanced search
• Solution: Advanced search

2. API Versioning

• Introduction: API versioning
• Versioning options
• NuGet versioning packages
• Implementing URL versioning
• Implementing header versioning
• Using the Accept header for versioning
• Implementing query string versioning
• Versioning minimal APIs
• Versioning and Swagger

3. Securing APIs

• Introduction: Securing APIs
• Redirecting to HTTPS
• Enforcing HTTPS
• Consuming the API with JavaScript
• Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS)
• Enabling CORS
• Adding ASP.NET Core Identity
• Adding token authentication

Conclusion

• Next steps