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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

Hosting an ASP.NET Core web app on IIS


IIS (Internet Information Server) has been Microsoft's Application Server since 1995. An application server serves static or dynamic content by a HTTP request.

IIS is a flexible and general-purpose application server that runs on Windows.

We can deploy our project to IIS basically by deploying the project in a folder and creating an IIS website pointing to that folder.

Getting ready

IIS should be installed before starting this section. IIS can be freely installed and used; we just need to enable it by opening the Turn Windows features on or off window in Control Panel:

We should configure the World Wide Web Services and the IIS Management Console to have IIS on the computer:

After clicking on the OK button, Windows will enable IIS on the computer and we can use it to serve web applications.

Also, we need to install the .NET Core Windows Server Hosting bundle (we can download the setup from https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/publishing/iis?tabs=aspnetcore2x...