Welcome

- In today's world of Cloud computing, micro-services, and containers, you need a web development framework that is lightweight, cross-platform and easy to deploy. For these reasons, Microsoft has decided that it's time to refresh its flagship web development framework, ASP.NET. ASP.NET Core and ASP.NET Core MVC are significant releases that introduce a more optimized developer experience, a better performing run time, and even cross-platform support that will allow you to run your application on Windows, Mac and even Linux.

Hi, I'm Jess Chadwick. In this course, I'll guide you through everything you need to know to get up and running with this powerful new framework. I'll show you how to create a new ASP.NET Core MVC application project, secure it with authentication and authorization, save and retrieve data to and from a database, and even expose some of that data as web APIs. What's more, I'll do all of this using industry standard patterns and practices, such as dependency injection and the MVC pattern to create modular and loosely coupled applications.

Now, we've got a lot to cover, so lets get started.