ASP.NET Core MVC 2.0 Cookbook

How to do it...

1. Let's create a new ASP.NET Core project and serve it in IIS:

dotnet new web 

2. Open the Program.cs file and look for the following code block:

public static IWebHost BuildWebHost(string[] args) => 
WebHost.CreateDefaultBuilder(args) 
.UseStartup<Startup>() 
.Build(); 

3. We should add a UseIISIntegration() method call in that function as follows:

public static IWebHost BuildWebHost(string[] args) => 
WebHost.CreateDefaultBuilder(args) 
.UseStartup<Startup>() 
.UseIISIntegration() 
.Build(); 

The UseIISIntegration() method call is important and required if we're going to deploy our project to IIS.

UseIISIntegration() method makes the ASP.NET Core application to use IIS as a reverse-proxy and specify which port will be listened, and ...