ASP.NET Core in Action

Chapter 2. Your first application

This chapter covers

• Creating your first ASP.NET Core web application
• Running your application
• Understanding the components of your application

After reading chapter 1, you should have a general idea of how ASP.NET Core applications work and when you should use them. You should have also set up a development environment to start building applications. In this chapter, you’ll dive right in by creating your first web app. You’ll get to kick the tires and poke around a little to get a feel for how it works, and in later chapters, I’ll show how you go about customizing and building your own applications.

As you work through this chapter, you should begin to get a grasp of the various components that make up an ...