The first version of ASP.NET was released 17 years ago and during these years, it is fascinating to see how the ASP.NET team constructively reacted through these years to the major shifts happening on the web. Initially a platform that was closed and tried to hide and abstract the web; ASP.NET has metamorphized into an open source and cross platform - one that fully embraces the nature of the web. This is the first part of a series of 3 articles that will cover the history of ASP.NET from its launch to the latest ASP.NET Core releases.  

Preview 3 of .NET 8 includes a new project templates to create an API with a TODO service instead of the weather forecast . Looking into the generated code of this template, there are a lot more changes going on such as a slim builder and using a JSON source generator which helps when using AOT to create native .NET binaries. This article looks into the changes coming. 

using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;

namespace BlazorAsyncValidation.Shared;

public class UserDto
{
    [Required] public string Name { set; get; } = default!;
}

using BlazorAsyncValidation.Shared;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc;

namespace BlazorAsyncValidation.Server.Controllers;

[ApiController, Route("api/[controller]/[action]")]
public class RegisterController : ControllerBase
{
    [HttpPost]
    public IActionResult IsUserNameUnique([FromBody] UserDto userModel)
    {
        if (string.Equals(userModel?.Name, "Vahid", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
        {
            return Ok(false);
        }

        return Ok(true);
    }
}

@page "/"

<PageTitle>Index</PageTitle>

<h2>Register</h2>

<EditForm EditContext="@EditContext" OnValidSubmit="DoSubmitAsync">
    <DataAnnotationsValidator/>
    <div class="row mb-2">
        <label class="col-form-label col-lg-2">Name:</label>
        <div class="col-lg-10">
            <InputText @bind-Value="Model.Name" class="form-control"/>
            <ValidationMessage For="@(() => Model.Name)"/>
        </div>
    </div>

    <button class="btn btn-secondary" type="submit">Submit</button>
</EditForm>

public partial class Index
{
    private const string UserValidationUrl = "/api/Register/IsUserNameUnique";

    private ValidationMessageStore? _messageStore;
    [Inject] private HttpClient HttpClient { set; get; } = default!;
    private EditContext? EditContext { set; get; }

    private UserDto Model { get; } = new();

    protected override void OnInitialized()
    {
        EditContext = new EditContext(Model);
        _messageStore = new ValidationMessageStore(EditContext);
        EditContext.OnFieldChanged += (sender, eventArgs) =>
        {
            var fieldIdentifier = eventArgs.FieldIdentifier;
            _messageStore?.Clear(fieldIdentifier);
            _ = InvokeAsync(async () =>
            {
                var errors = await OnValidateFieldAsync(fieldIdentifier.FieldName);
                if (errors?.Any() != true)
                {
                    return;
                }

                foreach (var error in errors)
                {
                    _messageStore?.Add(fieldIdentifier, error);
                }

                EditContext.NotifyValidationStateChanged();
            });
            StateHasChanged();
        };
        EditContext.OnValidationStateChanged += (sender, eventArgs) => StateHasChanged();
        EditContext.OnValidationRequested += (sender, eventArgs) => _messageStore?.Clear();
    }

    private async Task<IList<string>?> OnValidateFieldAsync(string fieldName)
    {
        switch (fieldName)
        {
            case nameof(UserDto.Name):
                var response = await HttpClient.PostAsJsonAsync(
                    UserValidationUrl,
                    new UserDto { Name = Model.Name });
                var responseContent = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
                if (string.Equals(responseContent, "false", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
                {
                    return new List<string>
                    {
                        $"`{Model.Name}` is in use. Please choose another name."
                    };
                }

                // TIP: It's better to use the `DntDebounceInputText` component for this case to reduce the network round-trips.

                break;
        }

        return null;
    }

This project is the next generation of the ASP.NET Boilerplate web application framework.

Modular Architecture
Designed as modular and extensible from the bottom to the top.

Microservice Focused
Designed to support microservice architecture and helps to build autonomous microservices.

Domain Driven Design
Designed and developed based on DDD patterns and principles. Provides a layered model for your application.

Authorization
Advanced authorization with user, role and fine-grained permission system. Built on the Microsoft Identity library.

Multi-Tenancy
SaaS applications made easy! Integrated multi-tenancy from database to UI.

Cross Cutting Concerns
Complete infrastructure for authorization, validation, exception handling, caching, audit logging, transaction management and so on. 

.NET Microservices – Full Course, Les Jackson
In this step-by-step tutorial I take you through an introduction on building microservices using .NET. As the name suggests we build everything completely from start to finish –with the full scope of the course outlined in the time-stamp section below. However, at a high-level we’ll cover:

• Building two .NET Microservices using the REST API pattern
• Working with dedicated persistence layers for both services
• Deploying our services to Kubernetes cluster
• Employing the API Gateway pattern to route to our services
• Building Synchronous messaging between services (HTTP & gRPC)
• Building Asynchronous messaging between services using an Event Bus (RabbitMQ)

 

ApiBoilerPlate - A Project Template For Building ASP.NET Core APIs In .NET Core 3.x 

ASP.NET Core and Blazor updates in .NET Core 3.0 Preview 7