In the last three chapters, you have seen what ASP.NET Core 2.0 is about from a global point of view, as well as set up your development environment, including Visual Studio 2017 (or Visual Studio Code) and a continuous integration and continuous delivery VSTS pipeline with a Git repository.
This is all really interesting, but very theoretical. Now, it is time to do something practical, time to go right into the action, time to build something by yourself!
In this chapter, we are going to build an application to showcase the basic concepts of the ASP.NET Core 2.0 Framework. During the following chapters, we will constantly be improving this application, while using and illustrating the various features of ASP.NET Core 2.0 and the technologies surrounding it.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- The Startup and Program...