README.md

ASP.NET Core - App Building Workshop

Setup

.NET Core SDK 2.0

Offline (on USB drive)

Run the appropriate SDK installer for your platform in the dotnet-sdk-2.0.0 folder

Online

Download and run SDK installer for your platform:

• Windows x64
• MacOS 10.12+
• Ubuntu 16.04
• Linux DEB

Visual Studio 2017 (Version 15.3)

If you're using Windows, you'll want to install Visual Studio 2017 15.3. You can install multiple versions of Visual Studio 2017 side by side, so you won't need to modify your existing Visual Studio 2017 install if you don't want. The Community edition is free to install and is suitable to complete this workshop.

Offline Installer (if available)

Since conference WiFi can be a little slow, we'll try to have some USB sticks with offline installers.

1. Run vs_community.exe in VS2017.3\Community folder
2. Select only the following workloads:
   • .NET desktop development
   • ASP.NET and web development
   • Azure development
   • .NET Core cross-platform development

Web Based Installer

1. Download the installer from the button on the left of this page: https://www.visualstudio.com
2. Select only the following workloads:
   • .NET desktop development
   • ASP.NET and web development
   • Azure development
   • .NET Core cross-platform development

Visual Studio Code

Offline (on USB drive)

Run the appropriate installer for your platform in the VSCode folder

Online

Install Visual Studio Code from http://code.visualstudio.com.

What you'll be building

In this workshop, you'll learn by building a full-featured ASP.NET Core application from scratch. We'll start from File/ New and build up to an API back-end application, a web front-end application, and a common library for shared data transfer objects using .NET Standard.

Sessions

Session	Topics
Session #1	Get bits installed, build the back-end application with basic EF model
Session #2	Build out back-end, extract EF model
Session #3	Add front-end, render agenda, set up front-end models
Session #4	Add authentication, add admin policy, allow editing sessions, users can sign-in with Twitter and Google, custom auth tag helper
Session #5	Add user association and personal agenda
Session #6	Deployment, Azure and other production environments, configuring environments, diagnostics
Session #7	Challenges