Zobi Web Solutions has been one of the earliest adopters for ASP.NET Core after its release in 2016. Keeping with the spirit to keep ourselves updated with the latest technologies especially related to Microsoft and .NET, we had projected a great growth potential by adopting ASP.NET Core and as a result of our decision, we are reaping its benefits today. We are going to share our experience about ASP.NET Core and why it is the best-suited technology for Enterprise Web Application development.

To put it in simplest words, ASP.NET Core is an open-source, cross-platform framework for building modern and cloud-based Web Apps. ASP.NET Core is platform-independent and it can run on every major platform such as Linux, macOS, and Windows. ASP.NET Core helps with the development of Web Applications, Web Services, and Dynamic Websites.

Benefits of ASP.NET Core

There are many benefits of ASP.NET Core Development. We are highlighting a few of the most important one’s:

• We can build both Web UI and Web APIs.
• Its Architecture is designed to support effective testing.
• It supports Razor Pages Coding which makes work more productive.
• As it’s an open-source, it is strongly community-focused and a lot of material is available to support development.
• It helps in hosting Remote Procedure Call (RPC) services using gRPC.
• NET Core is a Cloud-ready environment-based configuration system.
• It has built-in dependency injection.
• NET Core supports lightweight, high performance and highly modular HTTP request pipeline.
• It can be hosted on any of the following:
  • Kestrel
  • IIS
  • sys
  • Nginx
  • Apache
  • Docker

Comparison of ASP.NET Core and ASP.NET

ASP.NET	ASP.NET Core
It is exclusively built to run on Windows.	It is platform-independent and is built to support Windows, macOS, or Linux.
It uses Web Forms, SignalR, MVC, Web API, WebHooks, or Web Pages.	In addition to everything ASP.NET supports, .NET Core supports Razor Pages which is the recommended approach to create a Web UI as of ASP.NET Core 2.x.
It supports One version per machine.	It supports Multiple versions per machine.
Development can be done with Visual Studio using C#, VB, or F#.	Development can be done with Visual Studio, Visual Studio for Mac, or Visual Studio Code using C# or F#.
It does have Good performance.	It is having Higher performance than ASP.NET.
Uses .NET Framework runtime.	Uses .NET Core runtime.

Why ASP.NET Core is such a success?

The reasons are already shared above for the immense success of ASP.NET Core. In addition to that, we can do the following:

• We can develop web services and web applications, mobile backend, and other IoT applications. Moreover, we can choose from any of Mac OS, Windows, and Linux.
• We can easily Applications of the .NET Framework on .NET Core.
• We can deploy to on-premises or cloud.
• Dependency injection (DI) software design pattern is supported by ASP.NET core, which is a great method for obtaining inverse control between classes and their dependencies.

As such, the new features are so varied and useful that ASP.NET Core cannot be overlooked or understated.

Conclusion

With the launch of ASP.NET Core, Microsoft has addressed a lot of questions with one shot. It has been termed as single platform development with ASP.NET but with ASP.NET Core, Microsoft has address platform independence in a big way. As well as allowing the development of Web Apps, Web Services, Mobile Backend, etc under a single framework. We at Zobi Web Solutions have command and expertise over the language and have tried to address any possible questions you can have regarding .NET Core and why to prefer it. If you have any questions, feel free to connect with us to get a more in-depth idea. We will be more than happy to answer your questions.

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E-Commerce

E-Commerce has already been in trend now for quite some time. People love to shop online as they get multiple benefits of buying products online and the best of it is the ease of comparison, and ease of access with mobility and good security. Users can buy products they like from anywhere and at any time. With the current circumstance prevailing in the world regards to a pandemic, E-Commerce as emerged as a preferred solution.

Why ASP.NET?

Considering the exponential growth of E-Commerce Websites and Apps, there are multiple CMS, Frameworks, technologies and Even Web Builders launched in the market. They are all trying to get a pie out of this big market cake. Among all the competitors, ASP.NET stands out for quite a few reasons:

Security

In the initial days, people were reluctant to use E-Commerce as they were very concerned about the security of their data as well as payment details. With time, new technologies and advancement were induced in the E-Commerce platforms and they are now highly secure.

In the ASP.NET is a technology whose security is unmatched. When someone uses any existing CMS like WordPress, Magento, Joomla, or Website Builders which are open source they are technically giving access to a platform that can be accessed by other users. Although, these platforms have introduced their own safety measures, however, the security that ASP.NET brings in is unmatched. ASP.NET is considered as a Custom Development which is done as per the exact needs of the system.
Content Management

Content Management is one of the best aspects of ASP.NET development. We at Zobi Web Solutions are Expert ASP.NET Developers for a few years and have learned the aspect of creating good CMS (Content Management System) in ASP.NET. The benefit is that we can create only those features which are actually required by the clients.

In using readymade CMS you are getting many unwanted features that might not be necessary in the initial stages for any business and even many times considering financial, technical as well as market needs the Content Management has to be carefully crafted. With ASP.NET, we can have the flexibility to design what we need as well as the room to make the system in such a scalable manner that any new feature could be introduced fairly easily in the future. This helps in better client satisfaction, easier and manageable code structure, and helps establish the credibility of the brand.

UI/UX Designs

In earlier days of E-Commerce development, people use to compare ASP.NET developed websites with other open sources like PHP which tended to provide a better user interface. At some point, we at Zobi Web Solutions, too felt that although the system developed using ASP.NET is highly secure and robust but the End-users need an aesthetic user interface.

Considering this, we took the challenge head-on and had been looking for options to overcome this situation. This was the time when the JS Framework buzz hit the market. Zobi Web Solutions is one of the earliest adopters for JS Framework as a Frontend Tech with ASP.NET. We are providing services from AngularJS to Angular 10. In fact, earlier versions of Angular had a small drawback of not being that much SEO friendly. We overcame this issue by learning and implementing Angular Universal.

Now, we are providing services for frontend using AngularJS to Angular10 as well as Angular Universal and ReactJS.

We have been using ASP.NET Core as well for API and Backend processes.

Same way, Zobi Web Solutions have also adopted Blazor Framework. This is the next big thing in ASP.NET development. The benefit is that the same developer could develop elegant websites for both frontend and backend using the same technology.

Conclusion

ASP.NET is an incredible option for E-Commerce Development. We have tried to share some of its benefits above but definitely, that is not all. ASP.NET can take care of the needs of small scale requirements for E-Commerce to Big Enterprise level solutions providing the best tailor-made solutions. We at Zobi Web Solutions have adapted our processes to adopt the technology in the best possible manner to provide solutions to our valued clients exactly as they need. We can assist you with the best strategy and options. If you have any requirements for development, feel free to connect with us !!!

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In the Web and Application Development world, we can find many frameworks and development languages that programmers could choose from. Every framework has its own different sets of features and benefits that separate them. Today, we are going to discuss ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core to understand what benefits we can get out of using it.

ASP.NET

ASP.NET is an Open Source, Server-Side Web Application framework developed by Microsoft. It was launched in the early 2000s and it runs on the Windows platform. ASP.NET helps with the development of Web Applications, Web Services, and Dynamic Websites.

ASP.NET Core

ASP.NET Core is the latest version of ASP.NET which is platform-independent. This means it can run on every major platform such as Linux, MacOS, and Windows. ASP.NET Core was launched in 2016 and it is also an open-source developed by Microsoft and helps with the development of Web Applications, Web Services, and Dynamic Websites.

Why ASP.NET?

1. All in Itself: ASP.NET is a basic implementation of the .NET Framework for development of the Web Services and Websites. We can create any number of projects and can run on the same server. Most of the major companies are having their system running on ASP.NET for better control.
2. Individual and Enterprise: ASP.NET has something included for everyone for the individuals as well as the companies. For Small businesses, we can always use Web Pages to develop and as the business grows, ASP.NET allows us to use the MVC model which helps in the development of Web Application. We can easily edit Models, Views, and Controllers to change the content of Application.
3. Security: ASP.NET is a more secure framework than many of its competitors. ASP.NET has its own methods which make it better and secure. SQL Injection can be prevented using the SqlParameters, that allow us to minimize the injection.
   ASP.NET has security namespace which is used to define methods that can be used to protect the system.
4. Less Code, More Features: ASP.NET allows us to write fewer lines of codes and has many more functions, like JQuery in Javascript.
5. Community: In case of bottlenecks faced during development, there are many established communities of developers who are readily available to help out on various portals such as Stack Overflow, Social MSDB Forums, Code Project, etc.

Conclusion

We have shared a few of the important details necessary to influence your choice for Web development Strategy but it is definitely not everything. There are many more benefits to identify before selecting the right technology. Before that, it is important to outline and define the scope of work. Once the outline is ready it becomes easier to identify the right technology. Another best decision is to consult our team at Zobi Web Solutions which is exclusively working on ASP.NET development to assist you with decision making.

For further questions, feel free to connect us!!!

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The main reason to use .NET core is that you can run it on multiple platforms and architectures. That’s why you can build an application that can be run on Windows, MacOS, Linux, and other different operating systems and architectures.

In this article, you will learn about many reasons for using the .NET Core. In this article, we will show you to create a simple .NET Core application that that’s able to run on multiple operating systems. To work with the demo as this article you should run your computer on Windows 10 operating system you have to install Visual Studio 2017 and .NET Core 2 SDK.

Additionally, if you want to run your app on MacOS you will need access to running MacOS 10.12 or any latest version.

.NET Core App Deployment Options

You can deploy .NET Core applications as framework-dependent applications and also as self-contained applications. There are mainly two deployment models and there are some differences between them.

Framework dependent applications :

It is essential to install the .NET Core framework in the system that can run the app.

Framework dependent application can run on any operating system on which you install .NET Core without any modifications.

Self-Contained applications :

Self-Contained applications do not need to install any .NET Core framework because it contains everything that the app needs to run.

For every operating system that you want a self-contained app to run on, you have to publish an Operating System specific version.

How to Create Application for multiple Operating System

Now, after knowing the two different deployment options, let’s explore to use those options to run a .NET Core application on multiple operating systems. We explain you about to create a demo .NET Core applications and run that on Windows and Mac Operating System.

We will create the .NET Core application using Visual Studio 2017. This is technically not essential as you can create .NET Core applications with different IDE and command line. Choose any of one from both of them that you are comfortable most.

Framework Dependent Application

First, we will create a framework dependent app. We do this in Visual Studio 2017 with the version 15.5.2.

So, you can follow the following steps.

1) In visual studio -> Click File -> New Project -> .NET Core.
Then select the console app and create it.

2) Navigate to program.cs and it will let you write “Hello World!”.
Add Console.RedLine(); below the “Hello” line to keep open the console window at the time of running of the application.

Self Contained Application

In this step, we will contain the application. This is similar to create a framework dependent app but with one extra step.

For that, you can follow the following steps.

1) In visual studio -> Click File -> New Project -> .NET Core.
Then select the console app and create it.

2) Navigate to program.cs and it will let you write “Hello World!“.
Add Console.RedLine(); below the “Hello” line to keep open the console window at the time of running of the application.

3) Now for the extra step to make this in a self-contained app right-click on the project file and click on the “End Project”.

Now in the project file add a line as per following in <propertyGroup>

<RintimeIdentifiers>win10-x64</RintimeIdentifiers>

This will tells .NET Core which runtimes it can be built and published to create self-contained apps. Like this, the application can only be published for Windows 10.

Running the Application on Windows and MacOS

Now, after this, we have two .NET Core applications, we need to publish them, as you would do in production, to get a release build. We can follow the same steps for Windows applications.

• Right Click on Project File in Visual Studio and click on Publish.
• Then you can pick a folder and click publish.
• Do the same for the Self-contained app.

Publishing for Run on MacOS

We should not do anything special steps to running the app on MacOS. We can just use the previous steps. If you need the self-contained app to run on anything then you need to perform some additional steps.

• Right Click on PROJECT File of a self-contained app in visual studio and click on Edit Project to edit the project file.
• Now add a new RuntimeIdentifiers to the file and save it as follows.

<RuntimeIdentifiers>win10-x64;osx.10.12-x64<RuntimeIdentifiers>

• Now right-click on Project file and click Publish.
• Click on a setting link In a publish overview.
• This will opens a profile setting popup, you make sure that you have selected the target runtime osx.10.12-x64.
• Change the target location to another folder so you can differentiate between the published results for Windows and MacOS.
• Click on Save and then click on Publish.

Running the Application on Windows

Now, you have the following publish results.

Results for the Framework Dependent App.

Results for self-contained App for windows and MacOS.

Let’s run the Framework Dependent Application on Windows Operating System.

• Open Windows Explorer.
• Navigate to the folder that contains the published results for the framework dependent app.
• Now go to the navigation bar and type “cmd” before the path and press enter. This will opens command prompt with the context of a folder. And make sure that this will only work with windows 10.
• Now type dotnetFrameworkDependentApp.dll.
• Now you will see “Hello World!” on command prompt window as an output.

Now, we are going to run a self-contained app. This is easy because it contains all the necessary things that need to run the application. This is the means that it has a packaged that app and .NET Core and an exe file that you need to run.

• Navigate to the folder with publishing results for the self-contained application for windows.
• Double-click the SelfContainedApp.exe.
• The app runs and shows “Hello World!” in a command window.

Running the Application on MacOS

The process to run the app on MacOS is very similar to Windows. Let’s show the steps for running an app on MacOS.

Framework Dependent App run on MacOS

• First, you need to install .NET Core framework dependent app on MacOS. You do not need to install SDK, you need the only runtime.
• Now, open the terminal window.
• In the terminal window, navigate to the folder which contains framework dependent app files.
• Then Type dotnetFrameworkDependentApp.dll in the Terminal Window and press the enter.
• Now, this app will run and show “Hello” on the terminal screen.

Self-contained App run on MacOS

Execute the following steps to run self-contained app on MacOS.

• First open a terminal window.
• In the terminal window, navigate to the folder that contains self-contained app files.
• Then type sudo chmod + x selfcontainedapp and press enter.
• Type in password of your admin account and press enter to grant permission to run the app.
• Now type in open selfcontainedapp and press enter.
• Now the app will run and shows “Hello” in the new terminal window.

Like this, you can make and run .NET Core App on different Operating Systems.

Conclusion

One of the main advantages of .NET Core is that you can use it to run an application on multiple platforms. It is very simple to create a framework dependent application that can run on multiple platforms. In order to run, It only needs .Net Core runtime to be installed. If you are a .NET developers or an ASP.NET Development Company then you need to know about to build cross-platform .NET Core apps.

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Nowadays we can use ASP.NET 5 to build modern web applications. It is an opensource web framework and easily run and deployed on Linux, Mac, and windows operating system. It includes many different features like MVC 6 framework that’s a combination of Web API and MVC into a single web programming framework. You can add real-time functionality with cloud-connected apps. It happened due to ASP.NET 5 is base for signals 3. For maximum compatibility ASP.NET 5 can also run on .NET framework.

You can make a core web framework much modular as you can implement all features due to Nuget modules that allows you to optimize your app according to your requirements, and leaner as it did not require system.web.dll with ASP.NET5 architectural changes.

ASP.NET 5 provides the following features

1)  Cross-Platform Runtime

As we know that ASP.NET 5 can work with two different environment .NET core and .NET Framework to provide you a better experience and flexibility.

.NET Core: The .NET core runtime is a cross-platform and modular runtime with a small impression. .NET Core runtime has the following benefits.

A) You can run your application with a deployed version of runtime instead of that runtime which is installed on a host operating system. That makes easy to the app deployment and framework update.

B) The ASP.NET 5 provides a cross-platform version of .NET Core for Linux, Mac, and Windows operating system rather than that operating system you use for development.

c) .NET Core runtime will never ask you for update the runtime feature which is not relevant to your application. You can save your time on testing and deploying updates.

.NET Framework: The current .NET Core API is limited in compare of .NET Framework. So, for targeting .NET Core, you have to modify an existing app. If you do not want to modify you can run ASP.NET 5 application on the full .NET Framework. After doing this you can get full access to .NET Framework APIs and your existing libraries and application can work without modification on this runtime.

2) Fast HTTP performance:

ASP.NET 5 has introduced a modular HTTP request pipeline so you can add the component according to your requirements. A pipeline does not depend on system.web. By reducing upward in pipeline app can work better and tuned better HTTP stack. The pipeline is also supported OWIN.

You can use the configure method in your Startup class to customize the pipeline the configure method used to specify which middleware you want to use in your requested pipeline. ASP.NET 5 has introduced many different middlewares from katana project including middleware for authentication, diagnostics, and static files.

3) Dependency injection

ASP.NET Frameworks like SignalR, Web API and MVC supports the dependency injection but not the holistic way and consistent through the entire web stack. You can access service in middleware, in filters,  at startup, in model binding, virtually any part of the pipeline and in controllers wherever you want use your service. ASP.NET 5 has a minimum dependency injection container to bootstrap the system. but it also provides the facility of changing containers of your choice like Ninject, Autofac, etc.

4) Cloud-ready configure

The best feature of ASP.NET 5 is you not need to use Web.config file for configuration. The main aim of ASP.NET 5 is making easy to deploy an application to the cloud and automatically read the correct configuration value for particular environment. The new system allows you to request name value from different sources like XML, environment variable and XML you have to decide which format is best in your scenario.

5) MVC 6 – a unified programming model

Web API, Web Pages, and MVC frequently used together in developing solution and they provide complementary functionality. in past ASP.NET release, this framework was implemented separately due to this they have inconsistencies and duplication issues. In MVC 6 we can merge those models in a single programming model. Now you are able to create a single web app that handles the data services and Web UI without reconciling in the programing framework. You also able to transition a site first developed with a web page into a more robust MVC app.

Now you can return content-negotiated data and Razor views from same controller and using same MVC filter pipeline.

Conclusion

ASP.NET 5 has been nice upgrade over the previous versions. In this article we have been highlighted some of the key features of ASP.NET 5 that you should be aware of. If you are an ASP.NET developer who works with ASP.NET Development Company then you should know about these features.

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Since the last decade, ASP.NET is very successful and popular web development framework governed by Microsoft. They provide new features and new updates regularly within a short time of interval that helps developers to deploy the highly performed and highly scalable app.

By providing a magnificent feature like a profiler ASP.NET become the best choice to build unbelievable applications. There are many more options and features that help you within the framework to face development challenges within the framework to boost the performance of application.

There are many features of Asp.Net core but these 10 features are very important

1)  Container support and cross-platform:

With using .NET Core you can create the ASP.NET application and deploy it easily to Linux, macOS, and Microsoft. The .net core community has been put enough effort to run the ASP.NET in Linux easily.

Nowadays the container is taking place of a cloud.  Kubernetes, Docker and other different technologies are very trendy. The developer can utilize all these new technologies by using asp.net core. You can also deploy your application to Kubernetes and container by supporting Microsoft azure.

2) Performance:

The performance is a main future of the software. ASP.NET core promotes the fastest web application framework by using Kestrel web server and ASP.NET Core.

The ASP.NET integrated pipeline and IIS is almost 15-year old technology. It’s very useful but it carried extra data with it. The other side of kestrel web server is that specially designed to take advantage of the asynchronous model to be fast and lightweight.

3) cooperative MVC & Web API frameworks:

The developers were widely using web API and MVC framework before the asp.net core. MVC had been designed to build HTML-serving Web applications. Web API had been designed to use JSON or XML to construct restful services.

MVC and Web API was merged together with ASP.NET Core. There is always overlapping in two different frameworks. Every time MVC sends data in JSON form instead of HTML.

ASP.NET Core provides the new Razor Pages. The Razor Pages continue MVC framework to grant encapsulating the model and controller aspects of a page with two-way binding.

4) Different environment and development mode

One of the most favorite feature of ASP.NET Core is the new environment feature. It continues you to differentiate your code for their behaviors in staging, production, and development. This feature only provides by ASP.NET Core.

For eg. To configure your application it’s used within Startup.cs file in this scenario whether we only want to display a more comprehensive layout exemption page or not.

5) Dependency injection

One of the best features of ASP.NET Core is inbuilt dependency injection. It’s commonly used within ASP.NET MVC. It’s the best way for things like database contexts, logging contexts, and other different things passed into the MVC controller.

6) Signal R and web socket

ASP.NET provides great support for WebSockets that is used to communicate back and continue a long-running connection and forth with the browser. By using the signal R we can handle common scenarios easily.

The Signal R commonly used on Stackify. e.g. when you are observing current data of your, server every time you receive new data and you can immediately push that new data on your browser, so you are able to see in real-time. This kind of scenario is good for SignalR and WebSockets and makes them easy.

7) Localization and globalization

You can localize numbers, dates, and text within your web app using ASP.NET easily. If you want to build an application which used all over the world so at that time localization and globalization are very important.

ASP.NET allows you to customize the application for multiple languages by using a resource file. The resource file consider as a central repository where all of the text is kept and the web page can read this resource file easily.

There are two types of resource:

1. Local resource – for specific page.
2. Global resource – for the entire website.

8. Its self hosted web app

Sometimes we get the requirement deployed web application on a desktop instead of the IIS server. The ASP.NET prefix and profiler is a perfect example.  it’s all HTML which is a frontend lode from ASP.NET app run as a window service.

There is a different way to create self-hosted Asp.Net application in ASP.NET 4.5 you can complete it by using nancy, WCF or Owin and In ASP.NET Core you can deploy your app with a kestrel for nonserver based use.

9. Diffrent action filters.

The core feature of ASP.NET is its support extensible filters and it will help to implement functionality that will be applied to whole controller or action without modifying the action itself.

The filter is used to specify error handling, authorization, custom logic or caching whatever you like to implement.

10 Swegar Open API:

When you creating an API application at that time uses of Swager is needed. The Swager makes easy testing and documentation of the API.

The ASP.NET provides built-in functionality like a soap web service created with WCF. You must have to use Swagger if you are using MVC for restful API or Web API.

Conclusion:

ASP.NET Core latest has a significant upgrade in comparison to the previous version. Being an ASP.NET Core Development Company we have highlighted some key feature of the ASP.NET Core.

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