This book provides a comprehensive guide to building, deploying, and managing cross-platform web applications using ASP.NET Core. You'll gain expertise in Microsoft's open-source technology while integrating MVC, Docker, Azure Web Apps, Visual Studio, C#, JavaScript, and Entity Framework. Following the fictitious development team at Alpine Ski House, you'll experience a four-sprint journey from initial design to deployment and maintenance. The authors, three leading Microsoft MVPs, demonstrate how to build robust cross-platform applications, create immediate builds, and deploy viable products swiftly. You'll learn to leverage Azure for cloud scalability, develop solutions on Linux, and establish consistent environments using Docker. The book covers accessing data with Entity Framework Core, generating HTML views with the Razor view engine, and applying a new configuration system with structured logging. You'll also explore security through identity management, improve testability with dependency injection, and manage JavaScript effectively. Additional topics include using package managers, writing maintainable CSS with SASS, utilizing tag helpers, and testing web applications with xUnit.net and Jasmine. Code samples and complete apps are available for download, enhancing your learning experience.
James Chambers Book order (chronological)
James Chambers crafts tales that delve into the chilling realms of horror, crime, fantasy, and science fiction. His writing is characterized by an evocatively unsettling atmosphere, drawing readers into worlds steeped in suspense and the uncanny. Chambers masterfully builds tension, exploring the boundaries of human psychology when confronted with the unknown and the terrifying. His narratives often draw upon Lovecraftian themes while maintaining a distinct and memorable voice that sets his work apart.





This book tells the tragic story of the doomed romance between Charlotte, heir to the English throne, and Leopold, uncle of Queen Victoria and first King of the Belgians.
The Diamond Path
- 144 pages
- 6 hours of reading
A dramatic series that captures, culture by culture, the information that never makes it into the history books: strange stories, mystic rites, angry gods, vision quests.
Isaac Asimov's history of I-Botics
- 125 pages
- 5 hours of reading
Asimov explores one of his most popular and bestselling subjects in this full color illustrated novel of the world of robotics. Based on Asimov's seminal work and on his final robot story, this fast-paced, high-tech adventure is invigorated by illustrations that capture the spirit of this fantastic classic.
The English house
- 288 pages
- 11 hours of reading
This book is published as a companion to the Thames Television series of the same name produced and directed by Richard Mervyn. Numerous fascinating colour and b/w illustrations, gilt lettering to spine; light creasing to top edge of d/j; nick and score on jacket spine; minor softening to tail of spine; crease on top corner of FEP, text and illustrations clean and tight.