ASP.NET Core with the New MSBuild Based Tooling
By Wes Higbee
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Description
At the core of developing ASP.NET core applications is the project system. It brings together all the pieces to compile and execute your applications. In this course, ASP.NET Core with the New MSBuild Based Tooling, you'll learn how to use the new .NET Core Tools release to develop web applications. First, you'll explore the myriad of new benefits, including a modernized, lean MSBuild project file that combines the best of project.json and MSBuild. Next, you'll discover the new templating engine for dotnet new. Additionally, you'll dive into several command line tools to modify solution and project files, making it even easier to develop ASP.NET Core apps on any platform, with any IDE. Finally, you'll cover how the benefits of this new project system are being ported to other .NET project types. By the end of this course, you'll have a foundational knowledge of the new tooling and know how to get the most out of it.
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Course Overview
Hi! My name is Wes Higbee. Welcome to my course, ASP. NET Core with the New MSBuild Based Tooling. The 1. 0 release of the. NET Core tools brings with it a host of new benefits. And in this course, I'm going to walk you through the changes in the context of developing an ASP. NET Core web application to help you get the most out of the new tooling. One of the biggest changes is the migration from project. json to a new lean and mean MSBuild project file that combines the best of project. json and MSBuild. We'll also take a look at the entirely new templating engine behind the dotnet new command. We'll also see how we can manage projects and solutions with the dotnet CLI. We'll look at extending the dotnet CLI with our own tools, how easy it is to create a NuGet package with only a project file. We'll look at how to extend dotnet new with our own custom templates, and we'll also see how we can extend the build process by adding our own MSBuild targets to execute our own tasks. For example, maybe we want to integrate with Webpack or npm. And then we'll wrap up with a look at how we can migrate an existing web application from the project. json format to the new csproj format. Whether you're a veteran of ASP. NET Core development, or you're starting your first project, you'll walk away with everything you need to know to best take advantage of the new tooling. Let's get started.