ASP.NET Core Succinctly

There are only a few years one can consider as landmarks of a profession, and 2016 is one. That is when Microsoft released .NET Core, its third major development library and SDK. But this time, it's not just for Windows, and it's not a closed-source product. It's an open-source SDK that allows developers to build and run .NET applications on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
This book specifically covers the web development part of the framework, ASP.NET Core, by first going through the foundations of the library, then covering its basic features, and finally covering the new version of the web application frameworks ASP.NET MVC and Web API. At its end, this book will show you how to deploy applications to the cloud, specifically on Azure.
The book is based on the most recent version of the framework at the time of writing: .NET Core 1.1. When showing how to develop with IDEs, it uses Visual Studio 2017 and the new text-based cross-platform IDE, Visual Studio Code.