Setting up the project

Using Visual Studio 2017, we will create an ASP.NET Web Application project. You can call the application anything you like, but I called mine cricketScoreTrack. When you click on the new ASP.NET Web Application template, you will be presented with a few ASP.NET templates.

The ASP.NET templates are:

• Empty
• Web Forms
• MVC
• Web API
• Single Page Application
• Azure API App
• Azure Mobile App

We are just going to select the Web Forms template. For this application, we don't need authentication, so don't change this setting:

Note

I will assume that you have also downloaded the application from GitHub for this chapter, because you will need it as we discuss the architecture. The URL is—https://github.com/PacktPublishing/CSharp7-and-.NET-Core-2.0-Blueprints/tree/master/cricketScoreTrack.

Click on OK to create the web application. The project will be created and will look as follows:

To give you an idea of what we are building, the UI will look as follows:

The various sections are as follows:

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