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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

Creating a VSTS release pipeline


Your application gets integrated continuously and you have already seen some great benefits, such as detecting and fixing bugs and issues much faster. Let's not stop there; improving your development process even further is much easier than you think!

We will now see how to adopt the continuous deployment of your application by creating a VSTS release pipeline:

  1. Open the VSTS website, click on Build & Release in the upper menu, click on Releases and then on the New definition button, and select the Empty definition template:

  1. You can now select the Project and the Source (Build definition) and enable the continuous deployment, then click on the Create button:

  1. The release definition gets created and you can see it in the list:

The shown sample release definition does not really do very much for now. We will see a much more advanced version later that deploys to Azure, in the corresponding Azure chapters.