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Professional ASP.NET Core project templates for building secure, fast, robust and adaptable web applications or sites. It provides the minimum amount of code required on top of the default ASP.NET Core project template provided by Microsoft.

A professional ASP.NET Core template for building secure, fast, robust and adaptable web applications or sites. It provides the minimum amount of code required on top of the default ASP.NET Core template provided by Microsoft. Find out more at RehanSaeed.com, the Visual Studio Gallery or at The Open Web Security Project (OWASP). You can also follow me on Twitter at @RehanSaeedUK.

Why Do I Need It?

The default ASP.NET Core template that Visual Studio gives you does not make best use of the tools available. It's insecure, slow, and really has a very basic feature list (That's the point of it). ASP.NET Core Boilerplate provides you with a few more pieces of the puzzle to get you started quicker. It makes liberal use of comments and even gives you a checklist of tasks which you need to perform to make it even better. The main benefits of using this template are:

• Security
• Performance
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
• Accessibility
• Browser Compatibility
• Resilience and Error Handling
• Easier Debugging and Performance Testing Tools
• Patterns and Practices
• Atom Feed
• Search
• Social Media Support

Project Templates

Both ASP.NET Core and ASP.NET 4.6 MVC 5 are supported with their own project templates.

ASP.NET Core API

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The ASP.NET Core API project template contains the following features:

Dotnet New

This template is not available from Visual Studio (yet!) but from the new dotnet new command line tool. Find out more about dotnet new here.

ASP.NET Core MVC

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Technology Map

The ASP.NET Core MVC project template contains the following features:

Feature Selection Wizard

The ASP.NET Core MVC project template comes with a feature selection wizard where literally everything can be turned on or off with the click of a button for a truly personalized project.

ASP.NET 4.6 MVC 5

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The ASP.NET 4.6 MVC 5 project template contains the following features:

How Can I Get It?

Name	Information	Download
dotnet new NuGet package (For API template only)	1. You must have the latest version of the dotnet tooling. This comes with Visual Studio 2017 or from dot.net. 2. If you have a newer .NET Core Preview SDK installed then use a global.json to default to the current stable SDK. 3. Run dotnet new --install "Boilerplate.Templates::*" to install the project template. 4. Run dotnet new api --help to see how to select the feature of the project. 5. Run dotnet new bapi --name "MyTemplate" along with any other custom options to create a project from the template.
Visual Studio Extension (VSIX)	Install extension, then create project.
Visual Studio Extension (VSIX)	Follow instructions to add feed to Visual Studio.
Git Clone	Clone the git repository.	git clone https://github.com/ASP-NET-Core-Boilerplate/Templates

Release Notes & To-Do List

You can find release notes for each version here and a To-Do list of new features and enhancements coming soon in the projects tab.

Sites Built Using The Template

Add your site here, just raise an issue.

• adddemo.com (MVC 5) by ademsenel.

Contributions and Thanks

• sayedihashimi - Fixed dotnet new command in ReadMe.
• bobinush - Fixed typo.
• chrisrichards - Fixed paging in the API template.
• VeXHarbinger - Updated Twitter cards.
• michalstanko - Added Czech and Slovak characters to the FriendlyUrlHelper.
• miroslavpopovic - Small fix to SiteMapGenerator.
• Matthew-Bonner - Fix removal of trailing slash for manifest.json.
• Abuson - Two ASP.NET Core MVC fixes to do with error pages.
• Shiney - Fixed typo.
• ChrisOMetz - ASP.NET Core LESS feature.
• mcliment - Updated template to ASP.NET Core RC 1.
• surfsflo - Added woff2 support for Font Awesome.