NET Centric Computing

Course Title: NET Centric Computing

Course No: BIT351

Nature of the Course: Theory + Lab

Semester: 6

Full Marks: 60 + 20 + 20

Pass Marks: 24 + 8 + 8

Credit Hours: 3

Course Description

The course covers the concepts of cross-platform web application development using the ASP.NET Core MVC framework using C# programming Language.

Course Objectives

The objective of this course is to understand the theoretical foundation as well as its practical aspects of ASP.NET Core web application framework and C# language features.

Course Contents

1. Language Preliminaries

8 hrs

1.1. Overview of .Net framework

1.2. Compilation and execution of .Net applications

1.3. Constructor, Properties, Arrays and String

1.4. Indexers

1.5. Inheritance, use of "base" keyword

1.6. Method hiding and overriding

1.7. Applying polymorphism in code extensibility

1.8. Abstract class, sealed class, interface

1.9. Delegate and Events

1.14. Try statements and Exceptions

1.15. Attributes

Attribute Classes

Named and Positional Attribute Parameters

Attribute Targets

Specifying Multiple Attributes

2. Introduction to ASP.NET

3 hrs

2.1. .NET and ASP.NET frameworks

.NET, .NET Core, Mono

ASP.NET Web Forms, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web API, ASP.NET Core

2.2. .NET Architecture and Design Principles

2.3. Compilation and Execution of .NET applications

CLI, MSIL and CLR

2.4. .NET Core in detail

.NET CLI: build, run, test and deploy .NET Core Applications

3. HTTP and ASP.NET Core

3 hrs

3.1. HTTP, Request and Response Message Format

3.2. Common web application architectures

3.3. MVC Pattern

3.4. ASP.NET Core Architecture Overview, Projects, and Conventions

3.5. ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC

4. Creating ASP.NET core MVC applications

7 hrs

4.1. Setting up the Environment

4.2. Controllers and Actions

Create Controllers

Create Actions and Action Results Types

4.3. Rendering HTML with Views

Razor Syntax

Understanding Tag Helpers

4.4. Models: Binding and Validations

4.5. URL Routing and features

4.6. Web API Applications

API Controllers, JSON

Dependency Injection and IOC containers

5. Working with Database

6 hrs

5.1. ADO.NET basics

Connection, Command, Reader and Adapter classes

5.2. Entity Framework (EF) Core

5.3. Object-Relational Mapper (ORM)

5.4. Adding EF Core to an application

Choosing database provider, data models and data context

5.5. Querying and Saving data to database

Create, read, update and delete records

6. State Management on ASP.NET Core Application

4 hrs

6.1. State Management on stateless HTTP

6.2. Server-side strategies

Session State, TempData, Using HttpContext, Cache

6.3. Client-side strategies

Cookies, Query Strings, Hidden Fields

7. Client-side Development in ASP.NET Core

4 hrs

7.1. Common client-side web technologies

7.2. JQuery

7.3. Forms and Validation

7.4. Single Page Application (SPA) Frameworks

Angular

React

8. Building Applications with React and ASP.NET Core

3 hrs

8.1. Creating Forms in React

8.2. Making REST API Calls from React to ASP.NET Core for integration

9. Securing in ASP.NET Core Application

5 hrs

9.1. Authentication

ASP.NET Core Identity

Adding authentication to apps and identity service configurations

9.2. Authorization

Roles, Claims and Policies

Securing Controllers and Action Methods

9.3. Common Vulnerabilities

Cross-site Scripting attacks

SQL Injection attacks

Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Open Redirect Attacks

10. Hosting and Deploying ASP.NET Core Application

2 hrs

10.1. App Servers and Hosting models

IIS, Nginx, Apache, ASP.NET Core Module, Kestrel

10.2. Docker and Containerization

10.3. Publish to Azure cloud

Laboratory Works

Students will have to complete a project covering most of the features of above course using ASP.NET Core and C#.

1.Course Project

Text Books

1.C# 8.0 and .NET Core 3.0 – Modern Cross-Platform Development, Fourth Edition, by Mark J. Price, 2019
2.ASP.NET Core in Action, by Andrew Lock, 2018
3.Learning ASP.NET Core 2.0, Michel Bruchet, Jason De Oliveira, 2017
4.Learn ASP.NET Core 3 - Second Edition, Kenneth Yamikani Fukizi, Jason De Oliveira, Michel Bruchet, 2019
5.ASP.NET Core 5 and React By Carl Rippon

Notes:

This syllabus follows the official BIT curriculum of Tribhuvan University. In case of any doubt or revision, the university’s published syllabus shall be considered authoritative.

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