TAKE YOUR ASP.NET CORE WEB DEVELOPMENT SKILLS TO THE NEXT LEVEL BY DISCOVERING HIDDEN BEHAVIORS AND WAYS TO CONFIGURE THEM FOR YOUR APPS KEY FEATURES * Second edition updated and enhanced to cover the latest .NET 6 features and changes * Learn authentication and authorization techniques for securing your web apps from a .NET veteran * Discover best practices for configuring ASP.NET Core, from user interface design to hosting it on platforms BOOK DESCRIPTION ASP.NET Core is packed full of hidden features for building sophisticated web applications – but if you don’t know how to customize it, you’re not making the most of its capabilities. Customizing ASP.NET Core 6.0 is a book that will teach you all about tweaking the knobs at various layers and take experienced programmers’ skills to a new level. This updated second edition covers the latest features and changes in the .NET 6 LTS version, along with new insights and customization techniques for important topics such as authentication and authorization. You’ll also learn how to work with caches and change the default behavior of ASP.NET Core apps. This book will show you the essential concepts relating to tweaking the framework, such as configuration, dependency injection, routing, action filters, and more. As you progress, you'll be able to create custom solutions that meet the needs of your use case with ASP.NET Core. Later chapters will cover expert techniques and best practices for using the framework for your app development needs, from UI design to hosting. Finally, you'll focus on the new endpoint routing in ASP.NET Core to build custom endpoints and add third-party endpoints to your web apps for processing requests faster. By the end of this book, you'll be able to customize ASP.NET Core to develop better, more robust apps. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN * Explore various application configurations and providers in ASP.NET Core 6 * Enable and work with caches to improve the performance of your application * Understand dependency injection in .NET and learn how to add third-party DI containers * Discover the concept of middleware and write your middleware for ASP.NET Core apps * Create various API output formats in your API-driven projects * Get familiar with different hosting models for your ASP.NET Core app WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR This book is for .NET developers who’ve already covered the basics and are now looking to learn more about changing default behaviors of the framework to help improve the performance of their applications. Intermediate-level knowledge of ASP.NET core and C# is a must before you get started; there’s no refresher and very little theory in this book.