Books by Adam Freeman

Professional developers will produce leaner applications for the ASP.NET Core platform using the guidance in this best-selling book, now in its 9th edition and updated for ASP.NET Core for .NET 6. It contains detailed explanations of the ASP.NET Core platform and the application frameworks it supports. This cornerstone guide puts ASP.NET Core for .NET 6 into context and dives deep into the tools and techniques required to build modern, extensible web applications. New features and capabilities such as MVC, Razor Pages, Blazor Server, and Blazor WebAssembly are covered, along with demonstrations of how they are applied.ASP.NET Core for .NET 6 is the latest evolution of Microsoft's ASP.NET web platform and provides a "e;host-agnostic"e; framework and a high-productivity programming model that promotes cleaner code architecture, test-driven development, and powerful extensibility.Author Adam Freeman has thoroughly revised this market-leading book and explains how to get the most from ASP.NET Core for .NET 6. He starts with the nuts-and-bolts topics, teaching you about middleware components, built-in services, request model binding, and more. As you gain knowledge and confidence, he introduces increasingly more complex topics and advanced features, including endpoint routing and dependency injection. He goes in depth to give you the knowledge you need.This book follows the same format and style as the popular previous editions but brings everything up to date for the new ASP.NET Core for .NET 6 release and broadens the focus to include all of the ASP.NET Core platform. You will appreciate the fully worked case study of a functioning ASP.NET Core application that you can use as a template for your own projects.Source code for this book can be found at https://github.com/Apress/pro-asp.net-core-6.What You Will LearnExplore the entire ASP.NET Core platformApply the new ASP.NET Core for .NET 6 features in your developer environmentSee how to create RESTful web services, web applications, and client-side applicationsBuild on your existing knowledge to get up and running with new programming models quickly and effectivelyWho This Book Is ForWeb developers with a basic knowledge of web development and C# who want to incorporate the latest improvements and functionality in ASP.NET Core for .NET 6 into their own projects.

Now in its 8th edition, Pro ASP.NET Core has been thoroughly updated for ASP.NET Core 3 and online for ASP.NET Core 5 and .NET 5.0.

With examples and practical demonstrations, this book will help you deploy even large-scale, cross-platform web applications from development into production. By the end of the book, you will have a solid understanding of what Docker does, how it does it and why it is useful when developing and deploying ASP.NET Core MVC applications.

This book demonstrates how jQuery can be used with HTML5 to achieve excellent results.In Pro jQuery, seasoned author Adam Freeman explains how to get the most from jQuery by focusing on the features you need for your project. Getting the most from jQuery is essential to truly mastering web development.

Web API 2 is the latest evolution of Microsoft's web services toolkit, which allows the creation of RESTful applications built on the ASP.NET platform. It provides a standards-based approach and a high-productivity development model that makes it easy to deliver services to a wide-range of clients, including mobile devices.This book puts Web API into context for the experienced MVC Framework developer and dives deep into the tools and techniques required to build Web API applications that integrate with the MVC Framework and shows you how to create single-page applications to consume them.Best-selling author Adam Freeman explains how to get the most from Web API 2 by building on the foundation of the MVC Framework and the ASP.NET platform. He starts with the nuts-and-bolts and shows you everything through to advanced features, going in-depth to give you the knowledge you need.

AngularJS is the leading framework for building dynamic JavaScript applications that take advantage of the capabilities of modern browsers and devices.

Windows 8 contains Microsoft's revolutionary new application framework for building dynamic and responsive touch-enabled applications that target both desktops and mobile devices.Experienced author Adam Freeman invites you to take a crash course in Windows 8 development.

This 88-page primer unveils the key features of Microsoft's eagerly anticipated Windows 8 operating system.

The ASP.NET MVC 4 Framework is the latest evolution of Microsoft's ASP.NET web platform.

The Swift programming language has transformed the world of iOS development and started a new age of modern development. Pro Design Patterns in Swift shows you how to harness the power and flexibility of Swift to apply the most important and enduring design patterns to your applications, taking your development projects to master level.This book will teach you those design patterns that have always been present at some level in your code, but may not have been recognized, acknowledged, or fully utilized. Implementation of specific pattern approaches will prove their value to any Swift developer.Best-selling author Adam Freeman explains how to get the most from design patterns. He starts with the nuts-and-bolts and shows you everything through to advanced features, going in-depth to give you the knowledge you need. Pro Design Patterns in Swift brings design patterns to life and shows you how to bring structure and scale to your Swift code with a practical, no-nonsense approach.

The ASP.NET MVC 3 Framework is the latest evolution of Microsoft's ASP.NET web platform. You'll work through an extended tutorial to create a working e-commerce web application that combines ASP.NET MVC with the latest C# language features and unit-testing best practices.

This is a comprehensive tutorial and reference that contains numerous practical examples using C# and VB.NET.