Introduction To OWIN and KATANA in Visual Studio 2013 Preview

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• Portable: It includes all components that are available on the framework to the server and host. Now with this, the third-party frameworks can also seamlessly run on the server of Microsoft while Microsoft frameworks can potentially run on the third-party servers and hosts.
• Flexible: You will see in many frameworks that multiple features are present in an application by default, but the KATANA project components are small, focused to the point and in it the component's control depends on the application developer.
• Scalable: In it the substitutable components become available. The improved performance of the server introduces the improved performance of the OWIN apps.

Let's start to develop a Katana Project using the following procedure.

Step 1. Open Visual Studio 2013 Preview.

Step 2. Enter your web application name.

Step 3. Select an Empty Project Template

Step 4. Open the Package Manager Console and write the following command.

install-package Microsoft.Owin.Host.SystemWeb

The installation of Microsoft.Owin.Host.SystemWeb will install a few dependencies. Microsoft. Owin is one of the dependencies that provides many methods and types to develop the OWIN applications.

Step 5. Add a class from the Solution Explorer and the name of the class is "Startup. cs".

Step 6. Open the Package Manager Console and write the following command.

Install-Package owin.extensions

Step 7. In your "Startup. cs" file write the following code.

using Owin;

namespace KatanaAppDemo
{
    public class Startup
    {
        public void Configuration(IAppBuilder MyKatanaApp)
        {
            MyKatanaApp.Run(content =>
            {
                content.Response.ContentType = "text/plain";
                return content.Response.WriteAsync("Welcome to the Demo of Katana Application");
            });
        }
    }
}

Step 8. Debug your application.

That's it.

Summary

In the preceding article, I introduced you to the new technology released with the Visual Studio 2013 Preview named OWIN and KATANA. I'll write my next article related to this technology. So, just go to your Visual Studio IDE and use the new experience of KATANA.

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