Getting Started With ASP.NET Core 2.1 - Part One

Why Use ASP.NET Core?

• Cross-platform- It can run on Windows, Linux and Mac.
• Better performance- .NET Core does not depend on system.web.dll for communication between Browser-Server. In ASP.NET Core everything is packages which we need for our application. Packages reduce the request pipeline and improve application performance.
• Dependency Injection- Dependency Injection is in-built in Asp.Net Core.
• Integration with Modern UI Frameworks- It supports modern UI like Angular, ReactJS, Bootstrap, etc.
• Hosting-Net Core application can be hosted on multiple Web server such as IIS, Apache, Docker, etc. It is not dependent on IIS.
• Open Source- It is a fully open-source framework.
• Testability- Unit testing is very easy in Asp.Net core applications.
• Side-by-side App Versioning-Net Core runs on .NET Core, which supports simultaneously running in multiple versions of applications.
• Unified Programming Model for MVC and Web API-In Asp.Net Core both MVC Controller and API Controller are Inherits from the same controller base class.

Setting up a machine for ASP.NET Core 2.1 development

• An Editor/ Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
• .NET Core 2.1 SDK (Software Development Kit)

• Visual Studio
• Visual Studio Code
• Sublime
• Vim
• Atom
• Etc.

• I am using Visual Studio 2017, so I need to install Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition because this is free.
• You can download Visual Studio 2017 from this Link here.
• To develop Asp .NET Core 2.1 applications in Visual Studio 2017, please select .NET Core cross-platform development workload when installing.
  
  
  

• Depending on your operating system you have, download and install the SDK.
• The SDK includes everything you need to build and run .NET Core applications.
• The .NET Core Runtime is already included in the SDK. So, there is no need to install .NET Core Runtime
• The .NET Core Runtime includes just the resources required to run existing .NET Core applications.

Conclusion