Introduction
What this book is not
I made my best to keep this book small, so that you can learn ASP.NET Core quickly without getting lost in petty details. If you are looking for a reference book where you’ll find answers to all the questions you may have within the next 4 years of your ASP.NET Core practice, you’ll find other heavy books for that.
My purpose is to swiftly provide you with the tools you need to code your first ASP.NET Core application and be able to look for more by yourself when needed. While some authors seem to pride themselves in having the thickest book, in this series I’m glad I achieved the thinnest possible book for my purpose. Though I tried my best to keep all of what seems necessary, based on my 15 years experience of teaching .NET.
I assume that you know what ASP.NET MVC is and when to use it. In case you don’t, read the following What is ASP.NET Core chapter.
Prerequisites
In order for this book to meet its goals, you must :
- Have basic experience creating applications with C#
- Have working knowledge of HTML
- Know what a Web application is
How to read this book
This book’s aim is to make you productive as quickly as possible. For this we’ll use some theory, several demonstrations, plus exercises. Exercises appear like the following:
Tools you need
The only tool you’ll need to work through that book is Visual Studio 2017. You can get any of those editions:
- Visual Studio 2017 Community (free)
- Visual Studio 2017 Professional or Entreprise
When installing Visual Studio, make sure you select the ASP.NET and .NET Core components.
Source code
All of the source code for the demos and do-it-yourself solutions is available at https://bitbucket.org/epobb/aspnetcoreexercises
It can be downloaded as a ZIP file, or if you installed GIT you can simply type: