Introduction

Getting Started

(xref:)Create a Web app

(xref:)Create a Web API

Tutorials

(xref:)Create a Razor Pages web app

(xref:)Getting started with Razor Pages

(xref:)Adding a model

(xref:)Scaffolded Razor Pages

(xref:)SQL Server LocalDB

(xref:)Updating the pages

(xref:)Adding search

(xref:)Adding a new field

(xref:)Adding validation

(xref:)Uploading files

Create an MVC web app

Getting started

Adding a controller

Adding a view

Adding a model

Working with SQL Server LocalDB

Controller methods and views

Adding search

Adding a New Field

Adding Validation

Examining the Details and Delete methods

(xref:)Data access - Razor Pages with EF Core

(xref:)Getting started

(xref:)Create, Read, Update, and Delete operations

(xref:)Sorting, filtering, paging, and grouping

(xref:)Migrations

(xref:)Creating a complex data model

(xref:)Reading related data

(xref:)Updating related data

(xref:)Handling concurrency conflicts

Creating backend services for mobile apps

Building Web APIs

(xref:)Create a Web API

ASP.NET Core Web API Help Pages using Swagger

Creating backend services for native mobile applications

Fundamentals

Application Startup

Dependency Injection (Services)

Middleware

Working with Static Files

Routing

URL Rewriting Middleware

Working with multiple environments

(xref:)Configuration and options

(xref:)Configuration

(xref:)Options

(xref:)Logging

(xref:)Logging with LoggerMessage

Error handling

File Providers

Working with static files

Hosting

Session and application state

Servers

Kestrel

ASP.NET Core Module

HTTP.sys

(xref:)Globalization and localization

(xref:)Configure Portable Object localization with Orchard Core

Request Features

(xref:)Primitives

(xref:)Change Tokens

Open Web Interface for .NET (OWIN)

WebSockets

(xref:)Microsoft.AspNetCore.All metapackage

Choose between .NET Core and .NET Framework runtime

Choose between ASP.NET Core and ASP.NET

MVC

(xref:)Razor Pages

Razor syntax

(xref:)Route and app convention features

Model Binding

Model validation

Views

Razor syntax

View compilation

Layout

Tag helpers

Authoring tag helpers

Using tag helpers in forms

Built-in tag helpers

Anchor tag helper

Cache tag helper

Distributed Cache tag helper

Environment tag helper

Image tag helper

Partial views

Dependency injection into views

View components

Controllers

Routing to controller actions

File uploads

Dependency injection into controllers

Testing controllers

Advanced

Working with the Application Model

Filters

Areas

Application parts

Custom Model Binding

Custom formatters

Formatting response data

(xref:)Testing and debugging

Unit testing

(xref:)Integration testing

(xref:)Razor Pages testing

(xref:)Testing controllers

Remote debugging

Snapshot debugging

Working with Data

(xref:)Getting started with Razor Pages and Entity Framework Core using Visual Studio

Getting started with ASP.NET Core and Entity Framework Core using Visual Studio

ASP.NET Core with EF Core - new database

ASP.NET Core with EF Core - existing database

Getting Started with ASP.NET Core and Entity Framework 6

Azure Storage

Adding Azure Storage by using Visual Studio Connected Services

Get started with Blob storage and Visual Studio Connected Services

Get Started with Queue Storage and Visual Studio Connected Services

Get Started with Table Storage and Visual Studio Connected Services

(xref:)Client-side development

(xref:)Using Gulp

(xref:)Using Grunt

(xref:)Manage client-side packages with Bower

(xref:)Building beautiful, responsive sites with Bootstrap

(xref:)Knockout.js MVVM Framework

(xref:)Using AngularJS for Single Page Apps

(xref:)Using JavaScriptServices for Single Page Apps

(xref:)Styling applications with Less, Sass, and Font Awesome

(xref:)Bundling and minification

(xref:)Building Projects with Yeoman

(xref:)Using Browser Link

(xref:)Using the SPA project templates (preview)

(xref:)The Angular project template

(xref:)The React project template

(xref:)The React with Redux project template

(xref:)Mobile

(xref:)Creating Backend Services for Native Mobile Applications

(xref:)Hosting and deployment

(xref:)Hosting

(xref:)Host on Windows with IIS

(xref:)ASP.NET Core Module Configuration Reference

(xref:)Development-time IIS support in Visual Studio for ASP.NET Core

(xref:)IIS Modules with ASP.NET Core

(xref:)Host in a Windows service

(xref:)Host on Linux with Nginx

(xref:)Host on Linux with Apache

(xref:)Host in Docker

Building Docker Images

(xref:)Visual Studio Tools for Docker

Publish to a Docker Image

(xref:)Deployment

(xref:)Publish to Azure with Visual Studio

(xref:)Publish to Azure with CLI tools

(xref:)Continuous deployment to Azure with Visual Studio and Git

Continuous deployment to Azure with VSTS

(xref:)Publish profiles in Visual Studio

(xref:)Directory structure

(xref:)Security

(xref:)Authentication

(xref:)Community OSS authentication options

(xref:)Introduction to Identity

(xref:)Configure Identity

(xref:)Configure Windows Authentication

(xref:)Configure primary key type for Identity

(xref:)Custom storage providers for ASP.NET Core Identity

(xref:)Enabling authentication using Facebook, Google and other external providers

(xref:)Facebook authentication

(xref:)Twitter authentication

(xref:)Google authentication

(xref:)Microsoft authentication

(xref:)Other authentication providers

(xref:)Account Confirmation and Password Recovery

(xref:)Enabling QR Code generation in ASP.NET identity

(xref:)Two-factor authentication with SMS

(xref:)Using Cookie Authentication without ASP.NET Core Identity

(xref:)Azure Active Directory

Integrating Azure AD Into an ASP.NET Core Web App

Calling a ASP.NET Core Web API From a WPF Application Using Azure AD

Calling a Web API in an ASP.NET Core Web Application Using Azure AD

Securing ASP.NET Core apps with IdentityServer4

Securing ASP.NET Core apps with Azure App Service Authentication (Easy Auth)

(xref:)Authorization

(xref:)Introduction

(xref:)Create an app with user data protected by authorization

(xref:)Razor Pages authorization

(xref:)Simple Authorization

(xref:)Role based Authorization

(xref:)Claims-Based Authorization

(xref:)Custom Policy-Based Authorization

(xref:)Dependency Injection in requirement handlers

(xref:)Resource-based authorization

(xref:)View-based authorization

(xref:)Limiting identity by scheme

(xref:)Data Protection

(xref:)Introduction to Data Protection

(xref:)Getting Started with the Data Protection APIs

(xref:)Consumer APIs

####(xref:)Consumer APIs Overview ####(xref:)Purpose Strings ####(xref:)Purpose hierarchy and multi-tenancy ####(xref:)Password Hashing ####(xref:)Limiting the lifetime of protected payloads ####(xref:)Unprotecting payloads whose keys have been revoked ####(xref:)Configuration ####(xref:)Configuring Data Protection ####(xref:)Default settings ####(xref:)Machine-wide policy ####(xref:)Non-DI aware scenarios ####(xref:)Extensibility APIs ####(xref:)Core cryptography extensibility ####(xref:)Key management extensibility ####(xref:)Miscellaneous APIs ####(xref:)Implementation ####(xref:)Authenticated encryption details ####(xref:)Subkey Derivation and Authenticated Encryption ####(xref:)Context headers ####(xref:)Key Management ####(xref:)Key Storage Providers ####(xref:)Key Encryption At Rest ####(xref:)Key Immutability and Changing Settings ####(xref:)Key Storage Format ####(xref:)Ephemeral data protection providers ####(xref:)Compatibility ####(xref:)Sharing cookies between applications ####(xref:)Replacing <machineKey> in ASP.NET #### (xref:)Enforcing SSL #### (xref:)Safe storage of app secrets during development #### (xref:)Azure Key Vault configuration provider #### (xref:)Anti-Request Forgery #### (xref:)Preventing Open Redirect Attacks #### (xref:)Preventing Cross-Site Scripting #### (xref:)Enabling Cross-Origin Requests

(xref:)Performance

(xref:)Caching

(xref:)In-Memory Caching

(xref:)Working with a Distributed Cache

(xref:)Response Caching

(xref:)Response Caching Middleware

(xref:)Response Compression Middleware

(xref:)Migration

(xref:)ASP.NET to ASP.NET Core 1.x

(xref:)Configuration

(xref:)Authentication and Identity

(xref:)Web API

(xref:)HTTP Modules to Middleware

(xref:)ASP.NET to ASP.NET Core 2.0

(xref:)ASP.NET Core 1.x to 2.0

(xref:)Authentication and Identity

API Reference

2.0 release notes

1.1 Release notes

Earlier release notes

VS 2015/project.json docs

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