Summary

In this first chapter, we went through some of the biggest changes in ASP.NET Core and .NET Core. You are introduced to some of the key concepts in .NET Core: the NuGet distribution mode, the OWIN pipeline, the hosting model, environments, the improved context, and the built-in dependency framework, which are new in ASP.NET Core 3. We also had a look at the nuget and dotnet tools, the Swiss army knife of command-line .NET development, which will be covered in more detail in Appendix 1.

In the next chapter, we will start our .NET Core journeyby exploring the configuration of an application.