What is Dot net Core (.Net Core)
ASP.NET Core is a cross-platform, high-performance, open-source framework for building modern, cloud-based, Internet-connected applications. With ASP.NET Core, you can:
- Build web apps and services, IoT apps, and mobile backends.
- Use your favorite development tools on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
- Deploy to the cloud or on-premises.
- Run on .NET Core or .NET Framework.
- With ASP.NET Core, you can get the following improvements −
- Build and run cross-platform ASP.NET apps on Windows, Mac and Linux.
- Built on .NET Core, which supports true side-by-side app versioning.
- New tooling that simplifies modern wWeb development.
- Single aligned web stack for Web UI and Web APIs.
- Cloud-ready environment-based configuration.
- Built-in support for dependency injection.
- Tag Helpers which makes Razor markup more natural with HTML.
- Ability to host on IIS or self-host in your own process.
Why use ASP.NET Core?
It is platform independent .ASP.NET Core provides the following benefits:- A unified story for building web UI and web APIs.
- Architected for testability.
- Razor Pages makes coding page-focused scenarios easier and more productive.
- Ability to develop and run on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
- Open-source and community-focused.
- Integration of modern, client-side frameworks and development workflows.
- A cloud-ready, environment-based configuration system.
- Built-in dependency injection.
- A lightweight, high-performance, and modular HTTP request pipeline.
- Ability to host on IIS, Nginx, Apache, Docker, or self-host in your own process.
- Side-by-side app versioning when targeting .NET Core.
- Tooling that simplifies modern web development.
