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Learning ASP.NET Core 2.0

By : Jason De Oliveira, Michel Bruchet
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Learning ASP.NET Core 2.0

By: Jason De Oliveira, Michel Bruchet

Overview of this book

The ability to develop web applications that are highly efficient but also easy to maintain has become imperative to many businesses. ASP.NET Core 2.0 is an open source framework from Microsoft, which makes it easy to build cross-platform web applications that are modern and dynamic. This book will take you through all of the essential concepts in ASP.NET Core 2.0, so you can learn how to build powerful web applications. The book starts with a brief introduction to the ASP.NET Core framework and the improvements made in the latest release, ASP.NET Core 2.0. You will then build, test, and debug your first web application very quickly. Once you understand the basic structure of ASP.NET Core 2.0 web applications, you'll dive deeper into more complex concepts and scenarios. Moving on, we'll explain how to take advantage of widely used frameworks such as Model View Controller and Entity Framework Core 2 and you'll learn how to secure your applications. Finally, we'll show you how to deploy and monitor your applications using Azure, AWS, and Docker. After reading the book, you'll be able to develop efficient and robust web applications in ASP.NET Core 2.0 that have high levels of customer satisfaction and adoption.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Working with the Startup class


Another autogenerated element, which exists in all types of ASP.NET Core 2.0 projects, is the Startup class. As you have seen previously, the Program class mainly handles everything around the hosting environment. The Startup class is all about the preloading and configuration of your services and middlewares. Those two classes are the foundations of all ASP.NET Core 2.0 applications.

Let's look at the basic structure of the Startup class to get a better understanding of what is provided and how to make best use of its functionalities:

    using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Builder; 
    using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting; 
    using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http; 
    using Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection; 
 
    namespace TicTacToe 
    { 
      public class Startup 
      { 
        public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services) 
        { 
        } 
 
        public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app,
         IHostingEnvironment env) 
    ...