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In this article, I’ll be giving a walkthrough on how to create a console application and changing that into a web application. Or in other words, invoking a web application from a .Net core console application. And that too completely from command prompt. If you are a command prompt lover, you may love it. So, let’s gear up and proceed step-by-step. Verify .Net Core If you are creating a .Net Core application for the very first time, then it is good to verify whether it is installed on the system or not and this can be done by typing a simple command  dotnet --version  as shown below:   Create Console application Now we are sure that required setup is present on our machine, we can proceed and create our first Console application  using command dotnet new console as shown below:   On successful execution of above command, you will see that Program file and project file is created in your local directory and same can be veri...

Exclusive Amazon Deals Today I thought to create my first demo using Visual Studio 2015 for ASP.NET Core 1.0. So, I opened VS2015 and chose Web Application template under ASP.NET 5 Templates. Visual Studio started creating a project for me. Although my project was created but at the same time some DNX error was thrown as shown below:                     I tried various options including restarting machine, re-installing Visual Studio, etc. But Alas ! Nothing worked. But on surfing for few hours, I found a solution which worked for me. You can run any of the below commands: dnvm update-self OR dnvm upgrade   Open Visual Studio 2015 and do dnvm update using command line as:     Once this command was executed, I didn’t get that error again. Hope reading this blog will save your few minutes of troubleshooting. Enjoy learning.

Exclusive Amazon Deals ASP.NET Core 1.0 is a new open-source framework for building modern Web applications. As compared to previous versions of ASP.NET there are many major changes happened. I’ll try to capture most of the changes in this blog post. ASP.NET Core 1.0 was initially named as ASP.NET 5. I’m dedicating this blog post to showcase the major features of ASP.NET Core 1.0. Single aligned web stack ASP.NET Core 1.0 is a single aligned web stack on top of ASP.NET for Web API and Web UI as shown in below figure (image taken from mva):   Above figure clearly depicts that there is very less sharing between these three stacks. If you will see from ASP.NET template view, you will notice that all the three options are dimmed out as shown below: Much leaner framework with reduced surface area ASP.NET Core 1.0 is no longer based on System.Web.dll. As per dzone , typical HTTPContext object graph takes 30K in memory while new implementation takes ar...