Welcome to my new book on ASP.NET Core 3!
.NET and ASP.NET Core are relatively new in the technological landscape, as they were onlyofficially released in August 2017. Given that .NET is in the name, you would think that these would probably only be new versions of the highly popular .NET Framework, but that is not the case: we are talking about something that is truly new!
It's not just multiplatform support (howdy, Linux!), but it's so much more. It's the new modularity in everything: the transparent way by which we can now change things—the source code in front of our eyes teasing us to contribute to it, to make it better—is indeed a lot different from previous versions of .NET Core!
In this first chapter, ...