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Learning ASP.NET Core 2.0

By : Jason De Oliveira, Michel Bruchet
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Learning ASP.NET Core 2.0

By: Jason De Oliveira, Michel Bruchet

Overview of this book

The ability to develop web applications that are highly efficient but also easy to maintain has become imperative to many businesses. ASP.NET Core 2.0 is an open source framework from Microsoft, which makes it easy to build cross-platform web applications that are modern and dynamic. This book will take you through all of the essential concepts in ASP.NET Core 2.0, so you can learn how to build powerful web applications. The book starts with a brief introduction to the ASP.NET Core framework and the improvements made in the latest release, ASP.NET Core 2.0. You will then build, test, and debug your first web application very quickly. Once you understand the basic structure of ASP.NET Core 2.0 web applications, you'll dive deeper into more complex concepts and scenarios. Moving on, we'll explain how to take advantage of widely used frameworks such as Model View Controller and Entity Framework Core 2 and you'll learn how to secure your applications. Finally, we'll show you how to deploy and monitor your applications using Azure, AWS, and Docker. After reading the book, you'll be able to develop efficient and robust web applications in ASP.NET Core 2.0 that have high levels of customer satisfaction and adoption.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Deploying applications in Amazon Web Services


Amazon Web Services, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, provides a public cloud computing platform for building, testing, deploying, and managing applications and services within globally available AWS data centers all around the world. It supports many different programming languages, tools, frameworks, and systems.

We will explore Amazon Web Services in the following sections and see how to create an account and deploy your ASP.NET Core 2.0 applications to AWS Elastic Beanstalk.

First, you have to sign up for an account on Amazon Web Services; it only takes five minutes, but you will need a credit card for that.

Let's go through the account registration steps:

  1. Open a browser, go to https://aws.amazon.com, and click on the Create a Free Account button:

  1. Fill the Create a new AWS Account form and click on Continue:

  1. Fill the Contact Informationform and click on Create Account and Continue:

  1. Fill the Payment Informationform and click on Continue:

  1. Fill the Identity...