Understanding ASP.NET Core

Since this book is about C# and .NET, we will learn about app models that use them to build the practical applications that we will encounter in the remaining chapters of this book.

Learn More: Microsoft has extensive guidance for implementing app models in its .NET Application Architecture Guidance documentation, which you can read at the following link: https://www.microsoft.com/net/learn/architecture.

Microsoft ASP.NET Core is part of a history of Microsoft technologies used to build websites and services that have evolved over the years:

• Active Server Pages (ASP) was released in 1996 and was Microsoft’s first attempt at a platform for dynamic server-side execution of website code. ASP files contain a mix of HTML and code that executes on the server written in the VBScript language.
• ASP.NET Web Forms was released in 2002 with the .NET Framework and was designed to enable non-web developers, such as those familiar...