Beginning gRPC with ASP.NET Core 6: Build Applications using ASP.NET Core Razor Pages, Angular, and Best Practices in .NET 6

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Table of Contents About the Author About the Technical Reviewer Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: Getting Started with .NET 6 Chapter 1: Welcome to Modern .NET A Brief History of .NET .NET Framework .NET Core .NET Standard Modern .NET: A Unified Platform Mono and CoreCLR Differences and Commonalities JIT AOT The Best of Both Worlds .NET Schedule and What It Means How to Explore .NET 6 .NET 5 and 6 Improvements Get Started with .NET 6 Recap of C# 9 and Introduction to C# 10 Recap of C# 9 Init-Only Properties Records Improved Pattern Matching Improved Target Typing Covariant Returns Static Anonymous Functions Top-Level Programs Introduction to C# 10 Global Usings File-Scoped Namespaces Record struct Summary Chapter 2: Introducing ASP.NET Core 6 ASP.NET Core Fundamentals ASP.NET Core Web API ASP.NET Core MVC ASP.NET Core Razor Pages ASP.NET Core Blazor ASP.NET Core SignalR ASP.NET Core gRPC ASP.NET Core Minimal APIs Summary Part II: gRPC Fundamentals Chapter 3: Understanding the gRPC Specification Introduction to Remote Procedure Calls gRPC Concepts Protocol Buffers gRPC Channel Types of gRPC Services Unary Calls Server-Streaming Calls Client-Streaming Calls Bidirectional Streaming Calls Trailers gRPC Status Deadline and Cancellation gRPC Requests and Responses over HTTP/2 Introduction to the HTTP/2 Protocol Multiplexing Compression and Binary Data Transport Flow Control Server Push Benefits, Drawbacks, and Use Cases Benefits Drawbacks Use Cases Summary Chapter 4: Protobufs About Protocol Buffers Individual Declarations Services Declaration Messages Declaration Scalar Type Values Collections Lists Dictionaries Enumerations Nested Types Import Types Any, Value, Struct, Wrappers, Dates, and  Times (Well-Known Types) Any Wrappers Value Dates and Times Bytes One of Empty Messages Comments Summary Part III: gRPC and ASP.NET Core Chapter 5: Creating an ASP.NET Core gRPC Application Create an ASP.NET Core gRPC Application Create and Compile Protobuf Files Write, Configure, and Expose gRPC Services Test Using gRPCurl and gRPCui Tools gRPCurl gRPCui TLS Certificates Manage Errors, Handle Responses, and Perform Logging Perform Message Validation Support of ASP.NET Core gRPC on Microsoft Azure Summary Chapter 6: API Versioning Version gRPC Services Expose the Versions of Your Protobuf with ASP.NET Core Minimal APIs Summary Chapter 7: Create a gRPC Client Create a Console Application Compile Protobuf Files and Generate gRPC Clients Consume gRPC Services with .NET 6 Optimize Performance Take Advantage of Compression Define a Limit to Message Size Keep HTTP/2 Connections Open Increase HTTP/2 Maximum Connections Get Message Validation Errors from the Server Summary Chapter 8: From WCF to gRPC Differences and Similarities Between WCF and gRPC What and What Not to Migrate from WCF to gRPC Summary Chapter 9: Import and Display Data with ASP.NET Core Razor Pages, Hosted Services, and gRPC Scenario Explanation Create and Layer the ASP.NET Core gRPC Application Set Up a SQL Server Database and Use Entity Framework Core to Access Data Set Up a SQL Server Database Using Entity Framework Core to Access Data Design the Database by Code Seed the Database by Code Query the Database with LINQ Queries Write the Business Logic and Expose the Country gRPC Microservice Write the Business Logic into the CountryService.BLL Layer Write the Country gRPC Service Create and Layer the ASP.NET Core Razor Application Create the Application Skeleton Define Contracts and Domain Objects Implement the Data Access Layer with the gRPC Client Implement the Business Logic Layer Configure the ASP.NET Core Razor Pages Application Create a Background Task for Handling Uploaded File Data and Create a Channel to Store Data Create and Configure the gRPC Client with the IHttpClientFactory and Register All Dependencies in the Program.cs File Upload a Data File with a Form, Display and Manage Data on Razor Pages Summary Part IV: gRPC-web and ASP.NET Core Chapter 10: The gRPC-web Specification History and Specification of gRPC-web History of gRPC-web The gRPC-web Specification The gRPC-web JavaScript Libraries gRPC-web vs. REST APIs Summary Chapter 11: Create a gRPC-web service from a gRPC-service with ASP.NET Core Working with gRPC-web and the .NET Ecosystem gRPC-web and ASP.NET Core 6 gRPC-web and All .NET Clients gRPC-web and ASP.NET Core 3+ Clients Reworking the CountryService gRPC service for Browser Apps Support of ASP.NET Core gRPC-web on Microsoft Azure Summary Chapter 12: Import and Display Data with Angular 12 and gRPC-web Introduction to SPAs Generate TypeScript Stubs with Protoc Download the Correct Version of Protoc and Protobuf Well-Known Types Download the ts-protoc-gen Plug-in Download Improbable’s gRPC-web Library and Google Protobufs Library Executing the Protoc Command Write Data Access with Improbable’s gRPC-web Client Upload a Data File and Display Data with TypeScript, a Web Worker, and gRPC-web Manage Data with TypeScript and gRPC-web Summary Part V: Security Chapter 13: Secure Your Application with OpenId Connect Introduction to OpenId Connect Configure ASP.NET Core Use gRPCurl and gRPCui with a JWT gRPCurl gRPCui Use a C# Client with a JWT Use a gRPC-web Client with a JWT Get User Identity Server Side Summary Index