Errata: May 24, 2021

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In chapter 2, page 43, section 2.7:

The top left annotation in figure 2.10 should be: "The IHost is created in Program using the builder pattern, and the CreateDefaultBuilder and ConfigureWebHostDefaults helper methods."

In chapter 2, page 56, section 2.8.2:

In figure 2.16, the arrow to the top-right of the routing middleware block is pointing the wrong direction. It should be pointing top to bottom.

In chapter 9, page 266, section 9.2:

The Tip lists status codes in the wrong order. It should be "(400, 200, and 404, respectively)"

In chapter 11, page 357, section 11.5.2:

Listing 11.15 is using the wrong variable name. Instead of using builder, it should be:

config.AddUserSecrets();

In chapter 13, page 422, section: 13.2.2:

The final paragraph on the page refers to the wrong class. It should be: The Controller base class implements IActionFilter and IAsyncActionFilter itself.

In chapter 13, page 422, section: 13.2.2:

The title for listing 13.14 refers to the wrong class. It should be Overriding action filter methods directly on Controller.

In chapter 13, page 422, section: 13.2.2:

Listing 13.14 derives from the wrong base class. It should be

public class HomeController : Controller

In chapter 13, page 422, section: 13.2.2:

Listing 13.14 refers to the wrong base class in the first annotation. It should be: Derives from the Controller class.

In chapter 13, page 423, section: 13.2.2:

The first paragraph refers to the wrong base class. It should be: The OnActionExecuting Controller method runs before any other action filters.

In chapter 17, page 549, section: 17.2.1:

Figure 17.5 has a typo in the second annotation. It should be: Unhandled errors and exceptions that don't affect other requests.

In chapter 22, page 697, section 22.2:

The caption for figure 22.2 lists "configuration" twice. It should be "IHost provides features such as configuration, dependency injection, and logging",

In chapter 23, page 747, section 23.6:

Listing 23.19 is missing a using statement in the first line of the test method. It should be:

using var connection = new SqliteConnection("DataSource=:memory:");