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C# 7 and .NET: Designing Modern Cross-platform Applications
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C# 7 and .NET: Designing Modern Cross-platform Applications

by Mark J. Price, Ovais Mehboob Ahmed Khan
December 2018
Beginner to intermediate
668 pages
15h 30m
English
Packt Publishing
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Enabling default files

If the index.html file was returned as the default response for the website instead of having to enter its filename, it would be better.

In Startup.cs, add a statement to the Configure method to enable default files, as shown in the following code:

app.UseDefaultFiles(); // index.html, default.html, and so on
The call to UseDefaultFiles must be before the call to UseStaticFiles, or it won't work!

Start the website, and note that the index.html file is now returned immediately because it is the default web page for this website.

If all web pages are static, that is, they only get changed manually by a web editor, then our website programming work is complete. But, almost all websites need dynamic content. For example, ...

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