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ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 Cookbook

By : Jason De Oliveira, Engin Polat, Stephane Belkheraz
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ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 Cookbook

By: Jason De Oliveira, Engin Polat, Stephane Belkheraz

Overview of this book

The ASP.NET Core 2.0 Framework has been designed to meet all the needs of today’s web developers. It provides better control, support for test-driven development, and cleaner code. Moreover, it’s lightweight and allows you to run apps on Windows, OSX and Linux, making it the most popular web framework with modern day developers. This book takes a unique approach to web development, using real-world examples to guide you through problems with ASP.NET Core 2.0 web applications. It covers Visual Studio 2017- and ASP.NET Core 2.0-specifc changes and provides general MVC development recipes. It explores setting up .NET Core, Visual Studio 2017, Node.js modules, and NuGet. Next, it shows you how to work with Inversion of Control data pattern and caching. We explore everyday ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 patterns and go beyond it into troubleshooting. Finally, we lead you through migrating, hosting, and deploying your code. By the end of the book, you’ll not only have explored every aspect of ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0, you’ll also have a reference you can keep coming back to whenever you need to get the job done.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

What's new in ASP.NET and CLR?


We now will use two frameworks, and have two options to develop web applications:

  • The Framework 4.6, which offers us maximum compatibility with legacy apps and the previous .NET frameworks. Framework 4.6 only works on Windows. One of the most interesting new features of ASP.NET 4.6 is HTTP2, which gives us:
    • Asynchronous ModelBinding
    • Ability to always encrypt exchanges on the web
    • Pre-population of the browser's cache
    • Interruption of a TCP connection without closing
  • The .NET Core 2.0, which is the modular and lightweight approach above the Core CLR to develop cross-platform applications.

We can use them independently, or both at the same time, in order to create a two-frameworks-compatible application, and the old DLLs of the legacy applications will have to migrate on .NET Core version 2.0.

Two versions of the .NET framework can also live side by side in the same application; for example, .NET Framework 4.6 and .NET Core 2.0.

Note

Before .NET Core, Mono was used as and open source cross-platform .NET Framework. All the libraries outside the framework are optional, available in the form of packages.

Before .NET Core, a .NET application could only be executed under Windows, because only Windows could instantiate the CLR. If IIS was in charge of the instantiation, WebEngine.dll was responsible for instantiating CLR.

Now, we have a new SDK with a lot of tools to allow us to execute ASP.NET applications outside IIS and independently from any web server.