ASP.NET Core architecture
ASP.NET 5 is the latest version of the web application platform ASP.NET, renamed as ASP.NET Core. ASP.NET Core is a new cross-platform version of ASP.NET which can be used for building modern web applications or RESTful web services which are cloud-ready (and on-premises). ASP.NET Core runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac. It targets .NET Core by default, but you can also use the old .NET framework.
ASP.NET Core has gone through several architectural changes. It is no longer dependent on core OS libraries like System.Web. It is now more flexible, lean, and modular. It has a much smaller surface area than before which makes it a perfect fit for building microservices. The benefits of lesser app surface are tighter security, ...
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