Milestone 3: Web Foundations & ASP.NET Core

🟧 Milestone 3: Web Foundations & ASP.NET Core

Master the core of web development by understanding how HTTP works in .NET before using the high-level Abstractions of ASP.NET Core.

🕸️ Web Foundations (The Server)

• The Mechanic: Manual HTTP Server: Using HttpListener and the raw HttpContext.
• The Abstraction: Minimal APIs: High-performance, low-boilerplate endpoints.

🏗️ UI & Rendering (The Abstraction)

• The Abstraction: MVC Foundations: Controllers, Views, and Tag Helpers.
• The Pattern: Razor Pages: Page-based development for standard web apps.

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Professor’s Note

“A Senior Engineer should be able to write a simple HTTP server on a napkin using only the System.Net namespace. If you can’t, you’re just a passenger in the ASP.NET Core vehicle.”