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ASP.NET Core 2 Fundamentals

You're reading from   ASP.NET Core 2 Fundamentals Build cross-platform apps and dynamic web services with this server-side web application framework

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Published in Aug 2018
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ISBN-13 9781789538915
Length 298 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Introduction to Models


Models are simple POCO (Plain Old C# Objects) classes representing your business domain data. They basically model real-world entities. We can consider them as code reflections of real-world concepts and entities. For an e-commerce business, model classes would be Product, Order, and Inventory. If you are building an application for a university, model classes would be Student, Teacher, and Subject. Models represent the business domain data in your application and they are not aware of the underlying database that is being used in your application. In fact, you don't even need a database to work with models.

Creating an ASP.NET Core Application

Here are the steps to create an ASP.NET Core application:

  1. Make sure to create an ASP.NET Core application with an empty template.
  2. Create a Controllers folder and create a HomeController with a single Index action method.
  3. Create the following folder/files for the ViewModel:
    • Views: This folder is inside your project.
    • Views\_ViewStart...
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