Creating Web Applications with ASP.NET 5
by Mike Snell, Lars Powers
Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Unleashed, Third Edition
- About This eBook
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents at a Glance
- Table of Contents
- About the Authors
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- We Want to Hear from You!
- Reader Services
- Introduction
- Part I: Introducing Visual Studio 2015
- Chapter 1. A Quick Tour of Visual Studio 2015
- Chapter 2. The Visual Studio IDE
- Chapter 3. The .NET Languages
- What’s New in C# 6.0 and VB 14
- Language Primer
- Language Features
- Infer a Variable’s Data Type Based on Assignment
- Create an Object and Initialize Its Values (Object Initializers)
- Define a Collection and Initialize Its Values
- Creating an Instance of a Nonexistent Class
- Add Methods to Existing Classes (Extension Methods)
- Add Business Logic to Generated Code (Partial Methods)
- Access and Query Data Using the .NET Languages
- Write Simple Unnamed Functions Within Your Code (Lambda Expressions)
- Splitting an Assembly Across Multiple Files
- Working with XML Directly Within Your Code (VB Only)
- Removing Unused Arguments from Event Handlers (VB Only)
- Creating an Automatically Implemented Property
- Dropping the Underscore in VB for Line Continuation
- Working with Dynamic Languages/Objects
- Covariance and Contravariance
- Asynchronous Programming
- The .NET Framework
- Summary
- Part II: An In-Depth Look at the IDE
- Chapter 4. Solutions and Projects
- Chapter 5. Browsers and Explorers
- Chapter 6. Introducing the Editors and Designers
- Part III: Working with the Visual Studio Tools
- Chapter 7. Working with Visual Studio’s Productivity Aids
- Chapter 8. Testing Code
- Chapter 9. Refactoring Code
- Chapter 10. Debugging Code
- Chapter 11. Deploying Code
- Chapter 12. Developing Applications in the Cloud with Windows Azure
- Chapter 13. Working with Databases
- Part IV: Extending Visual Studio
- Part V: Building Web Applications
- Chapter 17. Building Modern Websites with ASP.NET 5
- Chapter 18. Using JavaScript and Client-Side Frameworks
- Chapter 19. Building and Consuming Services with Web API and WCF
- Part VI: Building Windows Client Apps
- Chapter 20. Building Windows Forms Applications
- Chapter 21. Building WPF Applications
- Chapter 22. Developing Office Business Applications
- Part VII: Creating Mobile Apps
- Chapter 23. Developing Windows Store Applications
- Chapter 24. Creating Windows Phone Applications
- Chapter 25. Writing Cross-Platform Mobile Applications with Apache Cordova
- Index
- Code Snippets
Creating Web Applications with ASP.NET 5
Nearly every business application written today involves some level of web development. This includes full-blown websites, native mobile application talking to web services, a desktop application working with service layers, or those applications that run natively but are written using the HTML, CSS, or JavaScript open standards. Web development is ubiquitous. Microsoft has invested heavily in this area, and Visual Studio 2015 represents the convergence of those investments.
ASP.NET 5 (previously referred to as vNext) includes enhancements to every aspect of web development. In fact, this is the first release that also includes many enhancements written by open source contributors. A lot has changed, but developers will still feel comfortable in ASP.NET 5. This release makes modern web apps easier to develop. Highlights for what’s new include the following:
The ASP.NET Core 5.0 framework that can install with your application and allow it to run on multiple devices and platforms (Mac, Linux, Windows and not just a web server). Developers can also now develop on all these devices using other tools such as Sublime Text.
Unified project templates for building web applications.
New and improved cloud tools in Visual Studio and Azure for deployment, tracing, debugging, and editing in the cloud.
Auto compile of changes (no compile feature) saving precious seconds every time you make a code change and need to view it in the browser.
Improved browser development tools in IE.
Development support for multiple web form factors to render responsive user interfaces to desktops, tablets, and phones.
Integrated web API as a single project model for building web back ends.
Rich support for server-side and client-side frameworks such as jQuery, Ember.js, and AngularJS.
Support for community tools like Grunt and Bower that plug directly into Visual Studio.
Improved NuGet support through the references dialog (no more referencing DLLs in your projects), including IntelliTrace for NuGet packages.
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Visual Studio provides an array of web development templates from which to choose. This section presents many of these possibilities.
Note
We cover numerous aspects that follow in greater detail in Part V of this book, “Building Web Applications.”
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