Pro ASP.NET Core 3: Develop Cloud-Ready Web Applications Using MVC, Blazor, and Razor Pages

© Adam Freeman 2020

A. FreemanPro ASP.NET Core 3https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5440-0_1

1. Putting ASP.NET Core in Context

Adam Freeman¹  

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London, UK

 

Understanding ASP.NET Core

ASP.NET Core is Microsoft’s web development platform. The original ASP.NET was introduced in 2002, and it has been through several reinventions and reincarnations to become ASP.NET Core 3, which is the topic of this book.

ASP.NET Core consists of a platform for processing HTTP requests, a series of principal frameworks for creating applications, and secondary utility frameworks that provide supporting features, as illustrated by Figure 1-1.

Figure 1-1.

The structure of ...