Setting up ASP.net Core

ASP.net core is nothing but leaner version of ASP.net 4.x.
It is more open source oriented version, providing unified platform to build web apps and API's.
More importantly it is platform independent too you can easily install and run it on Mac and Linux machines too with obvious support of its parent OS - Windows.

The following benefits can be derived from ASP.net core :

- Supports easy integration with client side frameworks such as  Angular and React. Templates for both type of projects are there.
- It has support for Typescript too, which is widely used for JavaScript programming these days.
- It has cloud ready configuration system.
- Built in Dependency Injection
- A light weight and high performance and modular http pipeline
- ability to build and run Windows, Mac and Linux

So far so good..

Installing  Core framework

1. Go to url http://dot.net
2. Click on Download
3. Select Download .net core sdk
4. Install it on your computer.

Once this is done you can go to command prompt and type

> dotnet --version

The above command will show you the version that is installed on your machine.

IDE to be used for development

You can use Visual Studio Code IDE to develop ASP.net core applications.

To download it, go to url - https://code.visualstudio.com/download

Once you are able to install it you can open it and explore around it.

In the next post I will create ASP.net core web API project.