You have patiently read the previous chapters, understood what you will be learning by reading this book, and prepared your developer machine. You are now ready to create your first sample application.
Let's look at the different options you have for creating your first ASP.NET Core 2.0 application in more detail.
When creating a new project in Visual Studio 2017, the first thing you see is the template explorer displaying a tree view for choosing between installed, language-specific, and online templates.
After having selected the template source in the tree view, the different templates are shown. For ASP.NET Core, you see Console App, Class Library, Unit Test Project ...
