ASP.NET Core
ASP.NET Core is Microsoft’s cross-platform, open-source framework for building web applications and services on the .NET platform.
ASP.NET Core in Action, 3e
ASP.NET Core is Microsoft's cross-platform, open-source web framework for building web applications and services on .NET.
- How it is used
- Provides the web framework for dynamic websites, HTTP APIs, and other .NET web applications.
- How deep it goes
- Traces requests through Kestrel, HttpContext, middleware, and endpoints, then starts a minimal API; detailed components are developed separately.
- Examples
- Builds a template-based minimal API returning “Hello World!” and uses a company-information website to illustrate dynamic pages.
- What you can do after
- Build it from scratch with a template, restored dependencies, a compiled application, and a locally callable minimal API.
Pro ASP.NET Core 7, Tenth Edition
ASP.NET Core is Microsoft's cross-platform, open-source framework for building modern web applications and services on .NET.
- How it is used
- Provides HTTP processing beneath MVC, Razor Pages, and Blazor applications.
- How deep it goes
- Explains request pipelines, middleware, services, and response generation in detail, but omits direct treatments of SignalR and gRPC.
- Examples
- Uses an RSVP form application, a store application, and .NET CLI project-creation commands.
- What you can do after
- Build it from scratch using a web project template, then configure request handling and add application features.
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Building Web APIs with ASP.NET Core
ASP.NET Core is Microsoft's open-source, cross-platform framework for building web applications and web APIs on .NET.
- How it is used
- Provides the framework for developing HTTP web APIs, including a board-game API project.
- How deep it goes
- Explains component roles and Program.cs configuration, then identifies template files and API options; detailed implementation is not present in these excerpts.
- Examples
- Uses Visual Studio's web API template, its weather-forecast sample, and replacement board-game classes.
- What you can do after
- Apply it via Visual Studio's ASP.NET Core web API template to start a board-game API and identify its configuration points.
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Related concepts
- dependency injectionuses · Dependency injection is a software design technique in which a component receives its dependencies from outside rather than creating or locating them internally.
- .NETuses · .NET is Microsoft's cross-platform development platform, providing runtimes, libraries, and tools for building and running applications.
- frameworkkind of · A software framework is a reusable structure that provides components, conventions, services, or extension points for building applications or other software systems.
- ASP.NETalternative to · ASP.NET is Microsoft's web application framework for building and hosting web applications, services, and APIs on the .NET platform.
- Swashbuckleused by · Swashbuckle is a .NET library that generates and serves OpenAPI documentation, including Swagger UI, for ASP.NET Core applications.
- Razor Pagesused by · Razor Pages is an ASP.NET Core page-focused programming model in which independently addressable pages combine Razor markup with request-handling logic.
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