If you stumble into this with no idea who I am or why I’m arrogant enough to think I’m qualified to potentially criticize the ASP.Net Core internals, I’m the primary author of both StructureMap (the IoC container) and an alternative “previous generation” OSS web development framework called FubuMVC that tackled a lot of the same problems that ASP.Net Core addresses now that were not part of older ASP.Net MVC or Web API. 

Partial Views and Child Actions are one the most used features of ASP.NET MVC. Partial Views provides us a way to create a reusable component that can be used in multiple Views. There are Actions which can be marked as Child Actions and these cannot be invoked via URL but inside views or partial views. Child Actions are no more available with ASP.NET Core. View Components are new way to implement this feature in ASP.NET Core. 

 dotnet --info

 C:\Users\Vahid>dotnet --info
.NET Core SDK (reflecting any global.json):
 Version: 2.1.301
 Commit: 59524873d6

Runtime Environment:
 OS Name:   Windows
 OS Version:  10.0.17134
 OS Platform: Windows
 RID: win10-x64
 Base Path: C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\2.1.301\

Host (useful for support):
  Version: 2.1.1
  Commit:  6985b9f684

.NET Core SDKs installed:
  2.1.300 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]
  2.1.301 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk]

.NET Core runtimes installed:
  Microsoft.NETCore.App 2.1.0 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App]
  Microsoft.NETCore.App 2.1.1 [C:\Program Files\dotnet\shared\Microsoft.NETCore.App]

To install additional .NET Core runtimes or SDKs:
  https://aka.ms/dotnet-download

 <TargetFramework>netcoreapp2.1</TargetFramework>

 {
  "sdk": {
        "version": "2.1.300-rc.31211"
  }
}

• .NET Core Runtime
• .NET Core SDK
• .NET Core Hosting Bundle
• Visual Studio
• ASP.NET Core Installer

• .NET Core SDK 
• .NET Core Runtime 
• ASP.NET Core Runtime

- The ASP.NET Runtime Meta Packages
- Microsoft.AspNetCore.App
- Microsoft.AspNetCore.All

- 32 bit and 64 .NET Core Runtimes
- ASP.NET Runtime Packages (Microsoft.AspNetCode.App/All)
- IIS Hosting Components

[Route("working")]
public ActionResult Working()
{
    using (var connection = new SqlConnection(_connectionString))
    {
        try
        {
            connection.Open();
        }
        catch (SqlException)
        {
            return new HttpStatusCodeResult(503, "Generic error");
        }
    }
   return new EmptyResult();
}

namespace MvcHealthCheckTest
{
    public class Startup
    {
        public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
        {
            services.AddHealthChecks()
                    .AddCheck("sql", () =>
                        {
                            using (var connection = new SqlConnection(Configuration["connectionString"]))
                            {
                                try
                                {
                                    connection.Open();
                                }
                                catch (SqlException)
                                {
                                    return HealthCheckResult.Unhealthy();
                                }
                            }
                            return HealthCheckResult.Healthy();
                        });
        }

        public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IHostingEnvironment env)
        {
            app.UseHealthChecks("/working");

    public class SqlServerHealthCheck : IHealthCheck
    {
        private readonly IConfiguration _configuration;

        public SqlServerHealthCheck(IConfiguration configuration)
        {
            _configuration = configuration;
        }

        public Task<HealthCheckResult> CheckHealthAsync(
            HealthCheckContext context, CancellationToken cancellationToken = default(CancellationToken))
        {
            using (var connection = new SqlConnection(_configuration["connectionString"]))
            {
                try
                {
                    connection.Open();
                }
                catch (SqlException)
                {
                    return Task.FromResult(HealthCheckResult.Unhealthy());
                }
            }
            return Task.FromResult(HealthCheckResult.Healthy());
        }
    }

namespace MvcHealthCheckTest
{
    public class Startup
    {
        public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
        {
            services.AddHealthChecks()
                    .AddCheck<SqlServerHealthCheck>("sql");

public Task<HealthCheckResult> CheckHealthAsync(
            HealthCheckContext context,
            CancellationToken cancellationToken = default(CancellationToken))
        {
            using (var connection = new SqlConnection(_configuration["connectionString"]))
            {
                try
                {
                    connection.Open();
                }
                catch (SqlException)
                {
                    return Task.FromResult(new HealthCheckResult(
                                                   status: context.Registration.FailureStatus,
                                                   description: "It is dead!"));
                }
            }
            return Task.FromResult(HealthCheckResult.Healthy("Healthy as a horse"));
        }

namespace MvcHealthCheckTest
{
    public class Startup
    {
        public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IHostingEnvironment env)
        {
            app.UseHealthChecks("/working", new HealthCheckOptions
            {
                ResponseWriter = async (context, report) =>
                {
                    var result = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(new
                    {
                        status = report.Status.ToString(),
                        errors = report.Entries.Select(e =>
                        new
                        {
                            key = e.Key,
                            value = Enum.GetName(typeof(HealthStatus), e.Value.Status)
                        })
                    });
                    context.Response.ContentType = MediaTypeNames.Application.Json;
                    await context.Response.WriteAsync(result);
                }
            });

[CLI] Build-time performance improvements.
[CLI] Global tools; replaces .NET CLI Tools (DotNetCliToolReference).
[CoreCLR] Minor-version roll-forward.
[CoreCLR] No-copy array slicing with Span<T>.
[CoreFX] HttpClient performance improvements.
[CoreFX] Windows Compatibility Pack.
[ASP.NET] SignalR is available for .NET Core.
[ASP.NET] HTTPS is on by default for ASP.NET.
[EF] Basic lazy loading support.
[EF] Support for Azure Cosmos DB.

Custom error pages in ASP.NET MVC Core

app.Use(async (ctx, next) =>
{
    await next();

    if(ctx.Response.StatusCode == 404 && !ctx.Response.HasStarted)
    {
        //Re-execute the request so the user gets the error page
        string originalPath = ctx.Request.Path.Value;
        ctx.Items["originalPath"] = originalPath;
        ctx.Request.Path = "/error/404";
        await next();
    }
});