"I think ASP.NET Core is the biggest game changer in the history of Web development using the Microsoft stack,", says Philip Japikse, developer, coach, author, teacher, Microsoft MVP and Visual Studio Live! presenter, in a recent article.
With 30 years of development experience, Philip is an international speaker, author and a passionate member of the developer community.
ASP.NET Core is quickly becoming mainstream.
In August this year, Microsoft announced ASP.NET Core 2.2.-preview1. Web templates have been updated to Bootstrap 4 and Angular 6.
Bristowe, a member of Developer Relations Team at Progress Software said, "When it comes to ASP.NET, the best, long-term bet is [to] target ASP.NET Core. This is where most of the innovation is occurring in terms of features and overall performance."
The new features in the preview include:
- API Controller Conventions
- Endpoint Routing
- Health ChecksHTTP/2 in Kestrel
- Improvements to IIS hosting
- SignalR Java client
In August of this year, Telerik conducted a survey, asking a series of questions relating to ASP.NET development. Those involved in ASP.NET application development services participated in the detailed round of questions.
Here are the key findings and trends for the future of ASP.NET development.
- ASP.NET MVC will continue to be the leading .NET Web technology. 57% of respondents who are into ASP.NET application development services, will develop .NET applications choosing it as their primary option.
- The survey finds that, the familiarity of ASP.NET Core has increased dramatically since a significant number of respondents who know the benefits of the technology, have tried it out, or are using the technology.
- Blazor is yet to get traction among the developers and Microsoft Enterprise services providers alike. Around 80% of the respondents said that they know very little about Blazor as compared to ASP.NET core.
- The results highlight that, while ASP.NET MVC still leads the way as the technology of choice among companies or developers involved in Microsoft enterprise development services with 57% respondents choosing ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Core has experienced a surge of adoption, +10% compared to all other ASP.NET technologies.
- Respondents believe, ASP.NET Web Forms are the most viable option when it comes to development. It is considered to be one of Microsoft’s most mature and popular development environments and will continue to be so over the coming years.
- ASP.NET Core adoption is bound to increase at the expense of all of the other technologies. 49% of the participants who are into ASP.NET application development services choosing it as their primary technology for the next 12 months.
- The combination of Angular and WebAPI has managed to create a feasible alternative to technologies like ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC. It has helped achieve the same goals as these technologies rely more heavily on the client-side.
Conclusion
There is no denying that ASP.NET is one of the best development resources to come out of Microsoft’s hat. With mature and robust development environment, it has managed to gather its fan following.
The .NET Framework is Microsoft's comprehensive and consistent programming model for the developing of web and mobile applications that have visually stunning user experiences, seamless and secure communication, and the ability to model a range of business processes.
The process for setting up Identity touches on almost every part of an application, requiring new model classes, configuration changes, and controllers and actions to support authentication and authorization operations.
In the sections that follow, I walk through the process of setting up Identity in a basic configuration to show the different steps that are involved.
There are lots of different ways of using Identity in an application, and the configuration I use in this chapter follows the simplest and most commonly used options.
Creating the User Class The first step is to define a class to represent a user in the application, which is known as the user class.
The user class is derived from IdentityUser, which is defined in the Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity namespace.
IdentityUser provides the basic user representation, which can be extended by adding properties to the derived class the most useful built-in properties that IdentityUser defines.
