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Now that we have our console app project, let's see what it takes to convert it to a simple web app.
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Let's convert our console app
project to a simple web app.
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We'll start by adding a dependency for
Kestrel.
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Remember, Kestrel is the cross-platform
managed web server for
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hosting ASP.NET Core apps.
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First, we add the name
of the new get package.
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Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel.
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Then we provide the version
number that we want to use.
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Which in our case is 1.0.0.
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When we save the file, code will recognize
that we just added a new dependency,
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then ask if we want to
run the restore command.
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Next, we'll open Program.cs and
make some modifications.
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First, we need to add
the following name spaces,
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using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting.
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Using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Builder.
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Then using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http.
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Then in the main method, we need to
instantiate and configure the host for
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our web app.
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Var host = new WebHostBuilder.
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We need to tell the host to use Kestrel
as the server by calling the UseKestrel
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extension method.
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Then we configure the host by
calling the Configure method.
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The Configure method expects
a delegate that accepts a parameter for
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the IApplicationBuilder instance.
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Which we can use to configure our app.
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On the app builder,
we call the Run method.
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The Run method also expects a delegate
that accepts a parameter for
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the HTTP context for the current request.
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The context gives us
access to the Response.
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On which is an extension method,
WriteAsync,
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that allows us to write
asynchronously to the response body.
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Our Run delegate represents a very
simple middleware component.
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We'll see more examples of ASP.NET Core
middleware later in this workshop.
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Lastly, we Build and Run the host.
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Now we can press F5 to
run our application.
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Once the application has been started,
we can browse to the URL localhost:5000.
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And here's the output from our middleware.
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When you create a web app project using
the .NET CLI or the full version of
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Visual Studio, the contents of the
Program.cs file will be provided for you.
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So you typically won't
write this code yourself.
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That being said, you can see that it's
relatively easy to get a web app host and
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server up and running.
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Also, our web app isn't very indicative
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of what a typical ASP.NET Core
web app looks like.
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Rather, this is an example
of the smallest,
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simplest web app that you can build.
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Though it's not a very practical solution.
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For instance,
most ASP.NET Core web apps will use MVC
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instead of directly writing to
the response body, as we did here.
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We'll see an example of an MVC
web app in the next video.
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