#dotnet

ASP.NET Core is Microsoft's open-source, cross-platform framework for building web applications, APIs, real-time services, and cloud-connected backends on .NET. It bundles MVC, minimal APIs, Razor/Blazor, SignalR, and the Kestrel web server into a single high-performance stack.

ABP is an opinionated .NET/ASP.NET Core application framework for building enterprise software, providing built-in infrastructure (event bus, background jobs, audit logging, multi-tenancy), pre-built application modules (identity, SaaS, CMS), startup templates, and tooling for DDD, modular monolith, and microservice architectures.

A Microsoft-maintained library of Razor/Blazor UI components implementing the Fluent Design System, giving .NET 8/9 web apps the look and feel of modern Microsoft applications. It wraps Fluent UI Web Components and adds Blazor-native components like DataGrid, dialogs, toasts, and design-token customization.