# ASP.NET Core MVC

**Note:** For ASP.NET MVC 5.x, Web API 2.x, and Web Pages 3.x (not ASP.NET Core), see <https://github.com/aspnet/AspNetWebStack>

ASP.NET Core MVC gives you a powerful, patterns-based way to build dynamic websites that enables a clean separation of concerns and gives you full control over markup for enjoyable, agile development. ASP.NET Core MVC includes many features that enable fast, TDD-friendly development for creating sophisticated applications that use the latest web standards.

ASP.NET Core MVC includes support for building web pages and HTTP services in a single aligned framework that can be hosted in IIS or self-hosted in your own process.

See the [ASP.NET Core MVC documentation](https://docs.microsoft.com/aspnet/core/).

Related community projects:

* [AspNet.Mvc.TypedRouting](https://github.com/ivaylokenov/AspNet.Mvc.TypedRouting): A collection of extension methods providing strongly typed routing and link generation for ASP.NET Core MVC projects.
* [ASP.NET API Versioning](https://github.com/Microsoft/aspnet-api-versioning): Adds API versioning semantics to your new and existing REST services built with ASP.NET Core. (Also supports ASP.NET Web API and OData.)
* [ASP.NET MVC Boilerplate](https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/6cf50a48-fc1e-4eaf-9e82-0b2a6705ca7d): Rich templates for ASP.NET Core MVC.
* [MyTested.AspNetCore.Mvc](https://github.com/ivaylokenov/MyTested.AspNetCore.Mvc): Powerful fluent testing framework for ASP.NET Core MVC.
* [MvcDeviceDetector](https://github.com/laskoviymishka/MvcDeviceDetector): Device detection mechanism to create mobile web applications.
* [XmlResult](https://github.com/Wallsmedia/XmlResult): XML formatter extensions to allow defining the XML serializer type.
* [AspNetCoreImageTagHelper](https://github.com/ignatandrei/AspNetCoreImageTagHelper): Tag helper for rendering images as inline base64 data.

This project is part of ASP.NET Core. You can find samples, documentation and getting started instructions for ASP.NET Core at the [Home](https://github.com/aspnet/home) repo.

## Building from source

To run a complete build on command line only, execute `build.cmd` or `build.sh` without arguments. See [developer documentation](https://github.com/aspnet/Home/wiki) for more details.
