Beginning ASP.NET for Visual Studio 2015

Chapter 1Getting Started with ASP.NET 6.0

What you will learn in this chapter:

• A brief history of ASP.NET and why it supports both Web Forms and MVC
• About the two frameworks, Web Forms and MVC
• How to install and use Visual Studio 2015
• The sample application that will be used throughout this book

Code Downloads for this Chapter:

The wrox.com code downloads for this chapter are found at www.wrox.com/go/beginningaspnetforvisualstudio on the Download Code tab. The code is in the chapter 01 download and individually named according to the names throughout the chapter.

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This growth means that there will be a long-term demand for people with the skills to build and maintain the next generation of web applications. As an increasing percentage of the world's business is accomplished with web applications, learning how to work on these applications is an obvious career move.

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