Learning ASP.NET Core MVC Programming

Creating a new ASP.NET 5 project

Issue the following commands to create a new directory where we will create the ASP.NET 5 application. The first command ( mkdir - make directory) is for creating a directory in Linux and the second command ( cd - change directory) is for going inside the folder. And the last command is the command line to create a .NET Core application:

mkdir aspnetcoreapp
cd aspnetcoreapp
dotnet new

The following screen will be displayed:

This will create the .NET Core application, which has a couple of files—Program.cs and project.json. It's a bare minimum application that does not have even Startup file.

We need to add the ...