Pro C# 7: With .NET and .NET Core

© Andrew Troelsen and Philip Japikse 2017

Andrew Troelsen and Philip Japikse, Pro C# 7, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3018-3_33

33. Introducing ASP.NET Core Web Applications

Andrew Troelsen¹  and Philip Japikse²

(1)Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

(2)West Chester, Ohio, USA

This is the first of the two chapters that introduce ASP.NET Core. As mentioned in Chapter 31, ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Web API have finally been fully combined into one framework with the release of ASP.NET Core. The subtle (and some not so subtle) differences between MVC 5 and Web API are gone. Coincidentally, so are the naming differences. It is just ASP.NET Core.

ASP.NET Core is built on top of .NET Core to provide cross-platform development and deployment of web applications ...