The ASP.NET Core platform is the foundation for creating web applications and provides the features that allow frameworks like MVC and Blazor to be used. In this chapter, I explain how the basic ASP.NET Core features work, describe the purpose of the files in an ASP.NET Core project, and explain how the ASP.NET Core request pipeline is used to process HTTP requests and demonstrate the different ways that it can be customized.
Don’t worry if not everything in this chapter makes immediate sense or appears to apply to the applications you intend to create. The features I describe in this ...
