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ASP.NET Core Essentials

By : Shahed Chowdhuri
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ASP.NET Core Essentials

By: Shahed Chowdhuri

Overview of this book

<p>ASP.NET Core is the latest collection of Microsoft’s web application development technologies. When you’re trying to reach a broad spectrum of users with a robust web application, ASP.NET Core is there to help you build that application. With the ability to cater to users on desktop, tablet, or smartphone platforms, you can put together a solution that works well anywhere.</p> <p>This book is what you need to get started developing ASP.NET Core applications was quickly as possible; starting by introducing the software and how it can be used in today’s modern world of web applications and smartphone apps. Walking you through the benefits of a Web API to support both applications and mobile apps to give you a solid understanding of the tech to build upon as you see what ASP.NET Core can do for you.</p> <p>The book wraps up with practical guidelines for the use of database technologies, unit tests, security best practices, and cloud deployments for the real world.</p>
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
ASP.NET Core Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Chapter 1.  Getting Started with ASP.NET Core

Active Server Pages was first made available on Microsoft's IIS web server in the mid-1990s. Fast-forward about 20 years, and ASP.NET Core (that is, ASP.NET 5 while in development) is now open source and runs on Windows, Linux, and OS X. Moreover, Visual Studio is now available as a cross-platform lightweight code editor in addition to the full-featured IDE on Windows.

As a .NET developer, you can take advantage of all the recent improvements, while building on the experience that you already have. The .NET Framework has evolved beyond the full framework and is now available as a cross-platform runtime called .NET Core.

In this chapter, we will discuss the following principles and concepts to get you started with ASP.NET Core:

  • .NET architecture

  • ASP.NET unified programming model

  • New Visual Studio IDEs

  • Cross-platform runtime