Introduction
In Chapter 1, Hello C#, you learned that .NET is what brings C# to life, as it contains both a Software Development Kit (SDK) used to build your code and a runtime that executes the code. In this chapter, you will learn about ASP.NET, which is an open-source and cross-platform framework embedded within the .NET runtime. It is used for building applications for both frontend and backend applications for web, mobile, and IoT devices.
It is a complete toolbox for these kinds of development, as it provides several built-in features, such as lightweight and customizable HTTP pipelines, dependency injection, and support for modern hosting technologies, such as containers, web UI pages, routing, and APIs. A well-known example is Stack Overflow; its architecture is built entirely on top of ASP.NET.
The focus of this chapter is to acquaint you with the fundamentals of ASP.NET and to give you both an introduction and an end-to-end overview of web application development with...
