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ASP.NET Core with the New MSBuild Based Tooling

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Overview

ASP.NET Core author Wes Higbee walks you through the new MSBuild Based tooling found in ASP.NET in this latest ASP.Net Core training. Start your free trial today!

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.

Syllabus

  • Course Overview 1min
  • Creating Web Projects from Templates with dotnet new 53mins
  • Managing Projects and Solutions with the dotnet CLI 38mins
  • Building, Running and Publishing Web Apps with the dotnet CLI 43mins
  • Extending the dotnet CLI with DotNetCliToolReference 17mins
  • Packaging Libraries for Reuse 39mins
  • dotnet new with Custom Templates 7mins
  • Using MSBuild Targets to Customize the Build Process and Run Tasks 39mins
  • Migrating Existing ASP.NET Core Apps from project.json 19mins

Taught by

Wes Higbee

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