Pro ASP.NET Core 7, Tenth Edition

1 Putting ASP.NET Core in context

This chapter covers

• Putting ASP.NET Core in context
• Understanding the role of the ASP.NET Core platform
• Putting the ASP.NET Core application frame works in context
• Understanding the structure of this book
• Getting support when something doesn’t work

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 7, 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 ...