20487: Developing Windows Azure and Web Services Training

This module provides an overview of service and cloud technologies using the Microsoft .NET Core and the Azure. The first lesson, “Key Components of Distributed Applications,” discusses characteristics that are common to distributed systems, regardless of the technologies they use. Lesson 2, “Data and Data Access Technologies” describes how data is used in distributed applications. Lesson 3, “Service Technologies,” discusses two of the most common protocols in distributed system and the .NET Core technologies used to develop services based on those protocols. Lesson 4, “Cloud Computing,” describes cloud computing and how it is implemented in Azure.

Key Components of Distributed Applications

Data and Data Access Technologies

Service Technologies

Cloud Computing

Manipulating Data

Lab: Exploring the Work Environment

Creating an ASP.NET Core project

Create a simple Entity Framework model

Create a web API class

Deploy the web application to Azure

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Explain services architecture and hosting environments

Explain cloud computing and the Microsoft Azure cloud platform

Explain data access strategies

In this module, you will learn about the Entity Framework data model, and about how to create, read, update, and delete data. Entity Framework is a rich object-relational mapper, which provides a convenient and powerful application programming interface (API) to manipulate data. This module focuses on the Code First approach with Entity Framework.

ADO.NET Overview

Creating an Entity Data Model

Querying Data

Lab: Creating a Data Access Layer using Entity Framework

Creating a data model

Query the Database

Lab: Manipulating Data

Create repository methods

Test the model using SQL Server and SQLite

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe basic objects in ADO.NET and explain how asynchronous operations work.

Create an Entity Framework Core data model.

Query data by using Entity Framework Core.

Insert, delete, and update entities by using Entity Framework Core.

ASP.NET Core Web API provides a robust and modern framework for creating Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)-based services. In this module, you will be introduced to the HTTP-based services. You will learn how HTTP works and become familiar with HTTP messages, HTTP methods, status codes, and headers. You will also be introduced to the Representational State Transfer (REST) architectural style and hypermedia. You will learn how to create HTTP-based services by using ASP.NET Core Web API. You will also learn how to consume them from various clients. After Lesson 3, in the lab "Creating an ASP.NET Core Web APIs", you will create a web API and consume it from a client.

HTTP Services

Creating an ASP.NET Core Web API

Consuming ASP.NET Core Web APIs

Handling HTTP Requests and Responses

Automatically Generating HTTP Requests and Responses

Lab: Creating an ASP.NET Core Web API

Create a controller class

Use the API from a browser

Create a client

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Design services by using the HTTP protocol.

Create services by using ASP.NET Core Web API.

Use the HttpRequest/IActionResult classes to control HTTP messages.

Consume ASP.NET Web API services.

ASP.NET Core Web API provides a complete solution for building HTTP services, but services often have various needs and dependencies. In many cases, you will need to extend or customize the way ASP.NET Core Web API executes your service. Handling needs such as applying error handling and logging integrate with other components of your application and supporting other standards that are available in the HTTP world. Understanding the way ASP.NET Core Web API works is important when you extend ASP.NET Core Web API. The division of responsibilities between components and the order of execution are important when intervening with the way ASP.NET Core Web API executes. Finally, with ASP.NET Core Web API, you can also extend the way you interact with other parts of your system. With the dependency resolver mechanism, you can control how instances of your service are created, giving you complete control on managing dependencies of the services.

The ASP.NET Core Request Pipeline

Customizing Controllers and Actions

Injecting Dependencies into Controllers

Lab: Customizing the ASP.NET Core Pipeline

Use Dependency Injection to Get a Repository Object

Create a Cache Filter

Create a Debugging Middleware

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Extend the ASP.NET Web API request and response pipeline.

Customize Controllers and Actions.

Inject dependencies into ASP.NET Web API controllers.

In this module you will learn how to host your application on-premises and on Azure. You will also learn about Docker containers, and writing serverless applications with Azure functions.

Hosting Services on-premises

Hosting Services in Azure App Service

Packaging Services in Containers

Implementing Serverless Services

Lab: Host an ASP.NET Core service in a Windows Service

Creating a new ASP.NET Core Application

Registering the Windows Service

Lab: Host an ASP.NET Core Web API in an Azure Web App

Create a Web App in the Azure portal

Deploy an ASP.NET Core Web API to the Web App

Lab: Host an ASP.NET Core service in Azure Container Instances

Publish the service to a Docker container

Host the service in Azure Container Instances

Lab: Implement an Azure Function

Develop the service locally

Deploy the service to Azure Functions

After completing this module, students will be able:

Host services on-premises by using Windows services and Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS).

Host services in the Azure cloud environment by using Web Apps, Docker containers, and Azure Functions.

Package services in containers.

Implement serverless services.

In this module, you will learn about Web Deploy and how to deploy web applications by using Web Deploy in Visual Studio. You will also learn how to define continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines and how to use Azure API Management and OpenAPI to provide robust, secure, and reliable APIs to your customers.

Web Deployment with Visual Studio 2017

Continuous Delivery with Visual Studio Team Services

Deploying Applications to Staging and Production Environments

Defining Service Interfaces with Azure API Management

Lab: Deploying an ASP.NET Core web service on Linux

Publish the ASP.NET Core web service for Linux

Configure Nginx as a reverse proxy

Lab: Deploying to Staging and Production

Deploy the application to production

Create a staging slot

Swap the Environments

Lab: Publishing a Web API with Azure API Management

Creating an Azure API Management instance

Testing and managing the API

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Explain Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) Web Deploy.

Explain Azure Web Apps deployment by using a Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services build pipeline.

Explain how to deploy web services to Azure Container Instances.

Explain how to define service interfaces by using API Management and Swagger.

Explain how to define policies by using API Management.

Explain defining service interfaces using Azure API Management and Swagger

This module explains how to store and access data stored in Azure Storage. It also explains how to configure storage access rights for storage containers and content.

Choosing a Data Storage Mechanism

Accessing Data in Azure Storage

Working with Structured Data in Azure

Geographically Distributing Data with Azure CDN

Scaling with Out-of-Process Cache

Lab: Storing Files in Azure Storage

Store publicly accessible files in Azure Blobs

Generate and store private files in Azure Blobs

Lab: Querying Graph Data with CosmosDB

Create the CosmosDB graph database

Query the CosmosDB database

Lab: Caching out-of-process with Azure Redis cache

Create the Azure Redis Cache service

Access the cache service from code

Test the application

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Describe the architecture of Storage.

Control access to your Storage items.

Cache data using Azure Cache for Redis.

Distribute data by using Microsoft Azure Content Delivery Network.

This module explains how to monitor and log services, both on-premises and in Azure.

Logging in ASP.NET Core

Diagnostic Tools

Application Insights

Lab: Monitoring ASP.NET Core with ETW and LTTng

Collect and view ETW events

Collect and view LTTng events

Lab: Monitoring Azure Web Apps with Application Insights

Add the Application Insights SDK

Load test the web service

Analyze the performance results

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Explain trace listeners

Explain performance counters

Explain ETW and LTTng events

Demonstrate using App Insights to monitor services

This module describes claim-based identity concepts and standards, and how to implement authentication and authorization by using Azure Active Directory to secure an ASP.NET Core Web API service.

Explaining Security Terminology

Securing Services with ASP.NET Core Identity

Securing Services with Azure Active Directory

Lab: Using ASP.NET Core Identity

Add ASP.NET Core Identity middleware

Add authorization code

Run a client application to test the server

Lab: Using Azure Active Directory with ASP.NET Core

Authenticate a client application using AAD B2C and MSAL.js

This module explains how to create scalable services and applications and scale them automatically using Web Apps load balancers, Azure Application Gateway and Azure Traffic Manager.

Introduction to Scalability

Automatic Scaling

Azure Application Gateway and Traffic Manager

Lab: Load Balancing Azure Web Apps

Prepare the application for load-balancing

Test the load balancing with instance affinity

Test the load balancing without affinity

Lab: Load Balancing with Azure Traffic Manager

Deploy an Azure Web App to multiple regions

Create an Azure Traffic Manager profile

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Explain the need for scalability.

Describe how to use load balancing for scaling services.

Explain Azure Load Balancer, Azure Application Gateway, and Azure Traffic Manager.