Front-end Development with ASP.NET Core, Angular, and Bootstrap

1What’s New in ASP.NET Core MVC

WHAT’S IN THIS CHAPTER?

• History of the .NET web stack
• Explanation of all the pieces of this new .NET Core puzzle
• Introduction to the ASP.NET Core and the new concepts it brings
• Some of the new notable features of ASP.NET Core MVC

The year 2016 is a historical milestone for Microsoft’s .NET web stack, as it is the year in which Microsoft released .NET Core, a complete open‐source and cross‐platform framework for building applications and services. It includes ASP.NET Core and a reworked MVC framework.

This first chapter is a brief introduction to ASP.NET Core. It can be used either as a refresher if you already have experience with this new framework or as a teaser and summary if you haven’t seen anything yet.

WROX.COM CODE DOWNLOADS FOR THIS CHAPTER

The wrox.com code downloads for this chapter are found at www.wrox.com Search for the book’s ISBN (978‐1‐119‐18131‐6), and you will find the code in the chapter 1 download and individually named according to the names throughout the chapter.

GETTING THE NAMES RIGHT

Before delving into the new framework, it is important to get all the names and version numbers right, as for the untrained eye it can otherwise seem just a big mess.

ASP.NET Core

ASP.NET Core was released in 2016. It is a full rewrite of ASP.NET, completely open‐source, cross‐platform, and developed without the burden of backward compatibility. Notable features are a new execution environment, a new project and dependency ...