Create ASP.NET Project With .NET 5.0 And Structure

Here we will create an ASP.NET Core Web application with .NET 5.0 framework and project structure in Visual Studio 2019.

Create Application

Open Visual Studio 2019 and click on Create a new project, as shown below

Select ASP.NET Core Web App and click on next

Configure the Project with  Project name, Location,  and solution name and click on next

Select the target framework .NET 5.0 and click on Create

This will create a new ASP.NET Core Web Application, as shown below. Wait until visual studio restores the packages into the project.

The dependencies packages restore from NuGet package in to the project.

To run the application click on IIS Express or CTRL + F5. this will open in the browser as shown below

We've sucessfully created ASP.NET Core Web Application with .NET 5.0.

Project Structure

The following is the default project structure.

.csproj

.csproj file to manage project we can edit the .csproj file by right click on the project and select Edit Project File

The .csproj file contains project framework details and nuget package details and the above project .csproj file code looks like below.

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Web">
 <PropertyGroup>
 <TargetFramework>net5.0</TargetFramework>
 </PropertyGroup>
</Project>

Dependencies

Right Click on the dependencies and click on manage NuGet Packages, select browse and search required package and install.

We can install required packages using package manager console.

Properties

The properties folder includes launchSettings.json file, in this file we can find the default applicaion lunch settings,IIS Settings and profiles.

We can customize the lunchsettings as required.

In the above article we discussed how to create an ASP.NET Core Web Application, project structure, properties, dependencies and .csproj files.