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ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 Cookbook

By : Jason De Oliveira, Engin Polat, Stephane Belkheraz
Book Image

ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 Cookbook

By: Jason De Oliveira, Engin Polat, Stephane Belkheraz

Overview of this book

The ASP.NET Core 2.0 Framework has been designed to meet all the needs of today’s web developers. It provides better control, support for test-driven development, and cleaner code. Moreover, it’s lightweight and allows you to run apps on Windows, OSX and Linux, making it the most popular web framework with modern day developers. This book takes a unique approach to web development, using real-world examples to guide you through problems with ASP.NET Core 2.0 web applications. It covers Visual Studio 2017- and ASP.NET Core 2.0-specifc changes and provides general MVC development recipes. It explores setting up .NET Core, Visual Studio 2017, Node.js modules, and NuGet. Next, it shows you how to work with Inversion of Control data pattern and caching. We explore everyday ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 patterns and go beyond it into troubleshooting. Finally, we lead you through migrating, hosting, and deploying your code. By the end of the book, you’ll not only have explored every aspect of ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0, you’ll also have a reference you can keep coming back to whenever you need to get the job done.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Working with Visual Studio Code


VS Code is a cross-platform, command-line, and file-folder editor. It can be installed on Windows, Linux, or macOS. We can see VS Code as a cross-platform, lightweight version of VS.

Getting ready

First of all, let's download VS Code from https://code.visualstudio.com/:

How to do it...

  1. Let's launch VS Code by double-clicking on Code in the VSCode-linux-x64 folder:

This will open VS Code:

We can press F1 to make the command palette appear, which gives you access to all the functionality of VS Code.

This way, you can also browse and install extensions by typing the extension.

Note

To install extensions, you can go to the VS Marketplace (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/#VSCode).

Now, we will open the project we created with the Yeoman scaffolding generator (recipe three) into VS Code, and we will ensure that we have installed dotnet CLI.

  1. Let's type F1 to open the command-line tool in VS Code and type .NET to intellisense propose us the option to restore packages with...