ASP.

Net Core – Getting

Started
Kamal Beydoun
Lebanese University – Faculty of Sciences I
[email protected]
 Introduction
ASP.NET Core is the latest evolution of Microsoft’s popular ASP.NET
web framework
 released in June 2016.
 focusing on high developer productivity and prioritizing backwards compatibility.
ASP.NET Core bucks that trend by making significant architectural
changes that rethink the way the web framework is designed and built.

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 Introduction
 ASP.NET Core makes writing web applications faster, easier, and more secure.
 It contains libraries for common things like:
 Creating dynamically changing web pages
 Letting users log in to your web app
 Letting users use their Facebook account to log in to your web app using OAuth
 Providing a common structure to build maintainable applications
 Reading configuration files
The key to any modern web application is the ability to generate dynamic web pages.
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 Introduction
 The Stack Overflow website (http://stackoverflow.com) is built using
ASP.NET and is almost entirely dynamic content.

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 ASP.NET Framework
ASP.NET Web Forms
 create web applications using a graphical designer and a simple event model. 
 lack of testability, a complex stateful model (making client-side development
difficult). 
Microsoft released the first version of ASP.NET MVC in 2009, based on
the Model-View-Controller pattern.

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 What is ASP.NET Core?
Is a lightweight platform that runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS.
Shares many of the same APIs as .NET Framework, but it’s smaller.
Provides a simpler implementation and programming model.
It’s a completely new platform, rather than a fork of .NET Framework,
though it uses similar code for many of its APIs.

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What is ASP.NET Core?

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What is ASP.NET Core?

 Most of the libraries you’ll

use in ASP.NET Core can
be found on GitHub :
https://github.com/aspnet

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What type of applications can you build?
 Server-side-rendered web applications are the bread and butter of ASP.NET
development.
 Single-Page Applications (SPAs), which use a client-side framework that
commonly talks to a REST server, are easy to create with ASP.NET Core.
 SPA is a web app that interacts with the user by dynamically rewriting the current page
rather than loading entire new pages from a server.
 Whether you’re using Angular, Ember, React, or some other client-side
framework, it’s easy to create an ASP.NET Core application to act as the
server-side API.
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 What type of applications can you build?

• It can serve HTML pages for traditional web

applications
• It can act as a REST API for client-side SPA
applications
• It can act as an ad-hoc RPC service for client
applications.

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 If you’re new to .NET development
ASP.NET Core has many selling points when compared to
other cross-platform web frameworks:
It’s a modern, high-performance, open source web framework.
It uses familiar design patterns and paradigms.
C# is a great language (or you can use VB.NET or F# if you
prefer).

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 If you’re new to .NET development
The primary language of .NET development, and ASP.NET
Core in particular, is C#.
It provides a sense of familiarity to those used to C, Java, and many
other languages.
It has many powerful features, such as Language Integrated Query
(LINQ) and asynchronous programming constructs.

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 Compile-once, Run-anywhere
As well as running on each platform, one of the selling points
of .NET is the ability to write and compile only once.
Your application is compiled to Intermediate Language (IL)
code, which is a platform-independent format.
If a target system has the .NET Core platform installed, then you
can run compiled IL from any platform.

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 Main ASP.NET Core benefits over ASP.Net
Framework
Cross-platform development and deployment
A focus on performance as a feature
Regular releases with a shorter release cycle
Open source
Modular features
A simplified hosting model

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Hosting in ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core

IIS is tightly
coupled with the
application. To be competitive cross-
platform, the ASP.NET
team have focused on
making the Kestrel HTTP
IIS hands off the server as fast as possible.
request to a self-
hosted web server in
the ASP.NET Core
application
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 NuGet
The entire web framework is implemented as NuGet packages
NuGet is a package manager for .NET that enables importing
libraries into your projects.

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How does ASP.NET work?

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 How does ASP.NET Core process a request?

Kestrel is responsible for

receiving raw requests and
constructing an internal
representation of the data, an
HttpContext object, which
can be used by the rest of the
application.

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 .Net Framework vs .Net Core
 .NET Core : The cross-platform and container-friendly.
 Your app relies on many Windows-only features, then .NET Framework may be the easiest
option.
 .NET Framework is that it has the greatest library support, in the form of NuGet packages.
 The open source nature of .NET Core development can be a big deciding factor for some people.
 The highly modular design of .NET Core, it’s likely that the platform will see a faster release
cycle than other platforms.
 .NET Core also follows semantic versioning (SemVer), so you can be sure that your old
applications won’t be affected by installing a new version of the framework.

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Preparing your development environment
All of ASP.NET Core (creating new projects, building, testing,
and publishing) can be run from the command line for any
supported operating system.
All you need is the .NET Core SDK and tooling, which provides
the .NET Command Line Interface (CLI).

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 Visual Studio 2022

Visual Studio is a full-featured

integrated development
environment (IDE), which
provides one of the best all-around
experiences for developing
ASP.NET Core applications.

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 .Net SDK and tooling
Whether you install Visual Studio or another editor, such as Visual Studio
Code, you’ll need to install the .NET Core tooling to start building
ASP.NET Core apps.
 In this course, slides are prepared for .NET Core 5.
 .NET 7 is available and could also be used. Main differences will be explained.
You can either download it from the ASP.NET website (https://get.asp.net)
or select the .NET Core cross-platform development workload during
Visual Studio 2022 installation.
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 Summary
ASP.NET Core is a new web framework built with modern software
architecture practices and modularization as its focus.
It’s best used for new, “green-field” projects with few external
dependencies.
Existing technologies such as WCF and SignalR can’t currently be used
with ASP.NET Core, but work is underway to integrate them.
Fetching a web page involves sending an HTTP request and receiving an
HTTP response.
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 Summary
 ASP.NET Core allows dynamically building responses to a given request.
 An ASP.NET Core application contains a web server, which serves as the entrypoint for a request.
 ASP.NET Core apps are protected from the internet by a reverse-proxy server, which forwards requests to
the application.
 ASP.NET Core can run on both .NET Framework and .NET Core. If you need Windows-specific features
such as the Windows Registry, you should use .NET Framework, but you won’t be able to run cross-
platform. Otherwise, choose .NET Core for the greatest reach and hosting options.
 The OmniSharp project provides C# editing plugins for many popular editors, including the cross-
platform Visual Studio Code editor.
 On Windows, Visual Studio provides the most complete all-in-one ASP.NET Core development
experience, but development using the command line and an editor is as easy as on other platforms.
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Extra

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