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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

Deploying to IIS


Microsoft's IIS web server predated even the first release of Active Server Pages. IIS supports a wide variety of web frameworks and languages, including ASP.NET with C#. You can run IIS on your own Windows server or in a hosted environment.

To deploy to IIS, you can choose any of the following options:

  • Copy web application files directly to the web application root on the server

  • Use Visual Studio's aforementioned publishing feature

  • Use a Continuous Integration system to automate web deployments

The following screenshot shows the IIS Manager:

Setting up IIS

Before you can deploy to IIS, you must ensure that IIS is properly installed and configured on your server. Typically, a website will run on port 80 for HTTP access and port 443 for HTTPS access. To enable Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), you will also have install a certificate.

If you're not familiar with setting up IIS, please consult the official tutorials at the following URL:

http://www.iis.net/learn

Setting up IIS involves...