This chapter introduces you to the basics of ASP.NET Core. It discusses the main development options available in ASP.NET Core, namely, MVC, Razor Pages, and Web API. Since you are going to work extensively with ASP.NET Core projects in the later chapters, it is worthwhile to learn how to create an ASP.NET Core web application using the Visual Studio IDE. To that end, this chapter helps you to
Understand main development options available in ASP.NET Core.
Create an ASP.NET Core MVC application.
Create an ASP.NET Core Razor Pages application.
Create an ASP.NET Core Web ...