Final Project – Complete ASP.NET Core Application

Final Project – Complete ASP.NET Core Application — a practical guide to ASP.NET Core final project with clear examples you can reuse in real projects.

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Short description

Ship a production-shaped solution: domain models, EF Core + migrations, REST API, JWT (or Identity) auth, validation, Swagger, logging, unit tests, and README with run instructions.

Steps

1. Design solution layers and domain.
2. Implement EF Core + API CRUD.
3. Add auth, Swagger, and tests.
4. Document and demo the running app.

Final project scope

1. Solution structure (API + Domain + Data + Tests)
2. EF Core models + migrations
3. CRUD endpoints + DTOs
4. Validation + problem details
5. JWT/Identity auth on protected routes
6. Swagger docs
7. ILogger usage
8. xUnit tests for core logic/API
9. README + .env/user-secrets notes

Suggested features

Users/auth
Items/orders (or posts/comments)
Pagination/filtering
Seed data