ASP.NET Core 101 -- What is ASP.NET? [1 of 13]

What is ASP.NET?

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, Mac OS, 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(网站签名) popular third-party apps for authentication like Microsoft, Google, Twitter and more.

Razor

ASP.NET lets you make your web pages with a language called razor.

Now razors cool because it's just HTML and C sharp. So you can type HTML and then type an at-sign(符合@) and start writing C sharp.

Free

Best of all, ASP.NET is absolutely free and if you're a student or doing open-source,Visual Studio is also free.

 ASP.NET is open source and the code is available on GitHub for you to read or learn from.