From the course: Introducing ASP.NET Core

What is ASP.NET? - ASP.NET Tutorial

From the course: Introducing ASP.NET Core

What is ASP.NET?

- Hi, I'm Leslie Richardson, and I work on Visual Studio. In this video series, Scott Hanselman and I are going to teach you all about ASP.NET. So what even is ASP.NET? Well, it's an open source web framework for building fast and secure web apps and services within .NET. ASP.NET is also cross platform, which is one of the biggest draws, which means you can run it on Windows, Linux, macOS, basically anywhere. So this will allow you to build your ASP.NET web apps on any operating system, make websites with HTML, CSS, or JavaScript and build these web services to be used by your site or in mobile apps. You can also turn your site sign into popular third party apps for authentication, like Microsoft, Google, Twitter, and more. ASP.NET lets you make your web pages with a language called Razor. Now, Razor is cool because it's just HTML and C-Sharp. So you can type HTML and then type an at sign and start writing C-Sharp. We'll see some cool examples of this in this video series. Best of all, ASP.NET is absolutely free. And if you're a student or doing open source, Visual Studio is also free. In fact, everything we're going to show you is free and all of .NET, C-Sharp and ASP.NET is open source and the code is available on GitHub for you to read or learn from. So if you're just finding this video and you're not familiar with C-Sharp or .NET, no worries 'cause there's a ton of videos in this series. So be sure to check out our C-Sharp 101 series as well as a full series on .NET. We hope you enjoy these videos as much as we enjoyed making them for you. So join us in the next video as Scott and I make our very first ASP.NET website.

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