Programming ASP.NET Core, First edition

PART III

Cross-cutting Concerns

Now that you’re comfortable with ASP.NET Core projects and the MVC application model, we can turn to some of the real-world issues you’ll face in building production solutions, including configuration, authentication, and data access.

Chapter 7, Design Considerations, introduces the key role of ASP.NET Core’s native Dependency Injection (DI) infrastructure, and it addresses ubiquitous challenges such as managing global configuration data, handling errors and exceptions, and designing controllers.

Chapter 8, Securing Your Application, shows how to implement user authentication in ASP.NET Core, and use its new policy-based API to authorize users. While ASP.NET Core relies on familiar authentication concepts, experienced ...