ASP.NET Core in Action, Second Edition

2 Your first application

This chapter covers

• Creating your first ASP.NET Core web application
• Running your application
• Understanding the components of your application

After reading chapter 1, you should have a general idea of how ASP.NET Core applications work and when you should use them. You should have also set up a development environment you can use to start building applications.

Tip See appendix A for guidance on installing the .NET 5.0 SDK and choosing an editor/IDE.

In this chapter, you’ll dive right in by creating your first web app. You’ll get to kick the tires and poke around a little to get a feel for how it works, and in later chapters I’ll show you how to go about customizing and building your own applications.

As you work ...