Our team of .NET developers at Helios is often faced with this question. They humorously say that in order to appreciate what we have today – ASP.NET Core MVC, we would need to take a look at our memories.
IN THE POST TODAY, THE HIGHLIGHTS ARE THEREFORE:
- Flashback: A bit about ASP.NET MVC 5
- What is ASP.NET Core MVC 6?
- Key Features of ASP.NET Core MVC
FLASHBACK: A LITTLE ASP.NET MVC 5
ASP.NET MVC is a light and testable framework built on the functionality of ASP.NET which was system.web and which brought a lot of existing baggage or legacy code.
In ASP.NET MVC 5, the web pages, MVC, and the web API were implemented separately, resulting in duplicates and inconsistencies. The programming model was as described in the figure below.
The adoption of ASP.NET MVC for enterprise application development has been on the rise for years; however, Microsoft was faced with the problem of maintaining two code bases.
In the future, Microsoft has unified MVC, web APIs and web pages in ASP.NET Core and with ASP.NET Core MVC has redefined the whole idea of web application development.
WHAT IS ASP.NET CORE MVC 6?
It is an open source model view controller framework designed and optimized for use with ASP.NET Core. It is compatible with Test Driven Development (TDD), uses the latest web standards, and supports a method based on dynamic website creation templates with clear separation of concerns.
A QUICK OVERVIEW OF ASP.NET BASIC IMPROVEMENTS:
- New set of tools to make modern web development simpler and easier.
- Built on .NET Core which supports full version management of applications side by side.
- Web stack merged for MVC and Web API.
- Allows you to create and run cross-platform ASP.NET applications on Linux, Mac and Windows.
- Integrated support for injecting dependencies.
- Runs on IIS or can be self-hosted in your own process.
- The environment-based configuration is ready for the cloud.
- Integrated support for creating and using NuGet packages.
WHAT’S NEW IN ASP.NET CORE MVC?
Microsoft has completely revamped the existing ASP.NET MVC framework and has released a new and advanced ASP.NET Core MVC. The new framework not only gives you more flexibility, but also allows you to gain competitive advantages with high-end web applications.
Here are the main features of ASP.NET Core MVC:
MULTI-PLATFORM CAPACITY
Unlike the .NET infrastructure, ASP.NET Core can run beyond Windows platforms such as Linux, Mac, etc. Visual Studio Code is a component of Visual Studio, the development tool for ASP.NET which allows you to develop applications on Linux and Mac. operating system.
Now our team of dot net developers is leveraging this platform independence feature of ASP.NET Core to develop a single application that can run on multiple platforms.
ADDED FLEXIBILITY OF BEING AN OPEN SOURCE
Being open source, ASP.NET Core allows you to maintain modularity through the project development environment in order to simplify coding. It also gives you the flexibility to add libraries and framework components as needed for application deployment.
You can take advantage of the benefits of NuGet Package Manager to manage execution. You can also include .NET Core libraries as well as ASP.NET Core framework libraries depending on the requirements of your project.
IMPROVED SUPPORT FOR CLOUD DEPLOYMENT
Support for cloud deployment is improved due to the modular architecture of this framework. The flexible environment and extensive modularity provided by ASP.NET Core MVC allow you to create applications ready to be deployed in the cloud.
SUPPORTS HOSTING OF INDEPENDENCE
Unlike ASP.NET application development, when it comes to ASP.NET Core application development, applications can run on web servers other than Internet Information Services (IIS). Because ASP.NET Core supports multiple platforms, it cannot keep the application dependent only on IIS.
Previously, IIS was the default server for ASP.NET applications. In addition, ASP.NET Core has given a specification for the OWIN (Open Web Interface for .NET) application.
NEWLY INTRODUCED LABEL AID
This feature is a new addition to the ASP.NET Core framework. Tag Helpers allow your server-side code to participate in the creation and rendering of HTML elements in Razor files. You can also use them to define custom tags, for example, <environment> or to modify the behavior of existing tags, for example, <label>. It can also be used to override HTML helper methods in some cases because it is easy to use.
In addition, Visual Studio, IDE for .NET better supports the creation of HTML elements with Tag Helpers.
INTEGRATED SUPPORT FOR DEPENDENCY INJECTION
Support for dependency injection existed even in previous versions of ASP.NET MVC, however, they used a third-party IoC container. In ASP.NET Core MVC, DI is integrated first, which means that DI is wired from the start.
Since DI is integrated into the core of ASP.NET MVC, you can effectively use this integrated functionality in your application. In MVC it can be used to support the coding structure. In addition, you can use this DI in view files using the @inject directive:
SUPPORT FOR JSON-BASED CONFIGURATIONS
Being an advanced framework, ASP.NET Core MVC supports files and JSON-based configuration providers. You can manage data with different providers such as environment variables, command line parameters and the Azure Key vault.
UNIT TEST WITH XUNIT.NET
In ASP.NET Core MVC, the Visual Studio unit testing infrastructure has been replaced by xUnit.net for unit testing. In addition, the use of interfaces and DI in this context makes it well suited for unit tests.
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