Chapter 6. ASP.NET state of the art

There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions.

—Martin Luther King

In Chapter 4, “Architectural options for a web solution,” I listed and discussed the options we have today for architecting and building web solutions. If you are looking for concrete suggestions and use-cases, you can refer back to that chapter and probably skip this one entirely.

This brief chapter serves the purpose of introducing the next chapter and the bunch of chapters that come after the next one. The next chapter is a quick guide to ASP.NET Core 1.0, the new runtime environment, and the breaking changes you might face if you opt for targeting the Microsoft .NET Core Framework. The chapters following the ...

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