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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

Deployment options


This chapter will focus on deploying your ASP.NET Core application to Internet Information Services (IIS) (Microsoft's web server product) and Azure (Microsoft's cloud service). If you plan on deploying to operating systems other than Windows, please consult the documentation for your specific operating system. Before you proceed with deployment, you should be familiar with the environment configuration settings.

Environment configuration

In Chapter 8 , Authentication, Authorization, and Security, we took a quick peek at the environment variable that defines the hosting environment, for example, development, staging, or production. You may recall that a list of environment variables appears in the Debug tab of your web project's Properties panel.

Open the launchSettings.json file to see the same variable in a configuration file:

"environmentVariables": { 
  "ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT": "Development" 
} 

You may have to expand the Properties node in the Solution Explorer panel...