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Introduction to asp.net5

Lesson 2 - Visual Studio

[WHAT]

] VIDEO SUMMARY - summary notes on the video, this lesson ... Examine Visual Studio 2015, and learn how to create your first application

[WHY]

]

[WHERE]

] WATCH THE FULL VIDEO

] Introduction to asp.net5 - Lesson 2 - Visual Studio

[WHEN]

] 2015-08-12 - created
] 2015-09-15 - published

[EXAMPLE]

[00:00] introduction

] Scott Hanselman -
] Glen Chondron -

[02:00] download and install the Visual Studio IDE

] use this URL to view the currently available options for free versions of - http://visualstudio.com/free
> ] visual studio(VS) community - is the full featured VS IDE, aka previosly known as professional version, available for FREE (in most cases)
] visual studio online -
] visual studio code - is a new text editor, you can also use this to develop web applications, a great choice for x-platfrom development
*] there are also other versions of VS available, for example, the "Enterprise version", that does have some additional features, but costs money

[00:00] sign in to VS, choose your language, your application type and viola - you have an application

] VS newsfeed page shows you relevant articles/videos about VS/development as your home/start page
] signing in to VS ( with your microsoft account) enables you to save your VS themes, fonts, colors across different machines
] CHOOSE file new project - to start a new project
] select your language on the left hand side of the dialog that appears, choose C# ( other options include VB, C++, F#, JavaScript, Typescript and more )
] once you select a language, an application types dialog window will appear, select "web" from the - this display ( other options include windows, android, cloud, ios, ... )
] name your application, hit OK
] dialog with asp.net application types appears, has options for .net 4.6 Templates and .net 5 templates,
] choose either Blank, Web application or Web API from the .net5 templates
] Blank - a new empty web application
] Web Application (default) - includes some pre-built functionality and application layout
] Web API - for building API's aka returning json data
] click OK - to create the selected Web Application template

[00:00]

] blank application has a readme file, handy b/c it contains links to helpful resources for developing with asp.net5
] points out SOLUTION EXPLORER tab in IDE -

[13:00] whats in the "empty application"

] startup.cs - code that runs every time your application is started, ] contains stuff that you can configure (action methods) that will run on every request to your application)
] project.json -
] solution - a collection of project(s)
] right click option in project viewer to view files in folder ( on disk)
] files in folder map pretty much to what is displayed in project explorer view
] NEW adding a file to the filesystem, this will show up in your project, prev ver of VS did not have this capability

[00:00] experiment 1 - renamed "readme" as "index"

] then launched the application, - no index page is being served up, whats going on?
] vs starts ths starts the web server, starts your browser, points your browser to your web applicaton
] when your web app starts, it runs the code in "startup.cs" file
] this is what we are currently seeing, NOT the file name index being served up
] the Configure methods inside the Startup.cs is what is executing,
] all of the requests coming into the web server are directed to here

[00:00] what we usually do in App.configure

] stitch together pieces of code(middleware) that will run to handle a "request" as it goes through our "pipeline"
] middleware does stuff like ] serve static files ] authentication, ] routing, ] diagnostics / logging
] effectively you can do anything - with middlware - all middleware is optional, add what you need/want

[00:00] references

] to serve static files we need to add middleware to our app that will do that.
] add a line to your code - "app.UseStaticFiles()" to run the middleware that will do that
] TIP - you can add a reference by typing a method name, then click the link that shows you "possible solutions", VS will download and install package for you

[29:45] wwwroot

] this is the location, where all of our app's 'static' files live.
] files for javascript, css, html, images,
] why we need wwwroot - as the root folder for our static files
] previously the project was the root folder,
] any files that are now in the root of the project like 'hosting.ini' will no longer be served

[00:00]

] highlight in VS (points out errors), left side of code windo

[00:00] REVIEW - lesson 2

] we have created an empty asp.net application
] served a static file
] added a piece of middleware to it
] next lesson is on ___ the full web app template, more server side stuff

[HOW-TO]

] # 5050 - my project - guide to asp.net - MVC

] # # -

[REFERENCE]

] # 4804 - overview series

quiz

1. which of the following best describes iis express

2. The middleware pipeline in processed in order

3. which of following is (the definition) of a solution in VS

4. which 3 of the following are examples of middleware?

5. which of the following is a followup to vs web express

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