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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

Continuous integration


Whether you're working on a project alone or with a team of developers, you will most likely use a source control system such as Git, Subversion, Mercurial, or TFS. To help automate the deployment process, it can be very efficient to deploy the web app directly from source control through a continuous integration (CI) system.

There are a few different options to consider when implementing CI:

  • Team Foundation Server from Microsoft

  • Visual Studio Team Services, a hosted option from Microsoft

  • TeamCity from JetBrains

To get started with TeamCity, you may download it from here:

https://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity

To get started with TFS, you may download it from here:

https://visualstudio.com/products/tfs-overview-vs.aspx

To get started with VSTS, you may sign up here:

https://visualstudio.com/products/visual-studio-team-services-vs.aspx

Preparing for CI

Not everyone on your team may be ready for CI. In fact, some team members and even project managers may be opposed to...