.NET Core is a set of runtime, library and compiler components. Microsoft uses these components in various configurations for device and cloud workloads. You can do the same for your app or service. 

• .NET Core
• WCF
• Xamarin.Mobile
• Entity Framework
• Signal R
• Rosylon
• Prism

Moq makes testing this piece of code a breeze. Without it, I would have had to write a whole lot of essentially throwaway code just to test this three line controller action. Probably one or two orders of magnitude more code. Clearly, this tool which I relied on heavily prior to .NET Core, remains quite a powerful weapon in my arsenal in .NET Core. 

“Microsoft.Data.Sqlite“, is an open source library and is also available as NuGet package. Here’s the Github source code for reference.  

we take you up, down through and over all the aspects of ASP.NET Core and Core MVC. 

Discontinued Technology in .NET Core 

Extending Razor Views in ASP.NET Core 

WCF Is Dead and Web API Is Dying – Long Live MVC 6!