The ASP.NET MVC Core framework is a lightweight, open source, highly testable presentation framework optimized for use with ASP.NET Core.
ASP.NET Core MVC provides a patterns-based way to build dynamic websites that enables a clean separation of concerns.
Initial release June 7, 2016.
Stable release with version 8.0 in November 14, 2023.
it is developed by Microsoft.
ASP.NET Core is an open-source modular web-application framework. It is a redesign of ASP.NET that unites the previously separate ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Web API into a single programming model
MVC stands for Model View and Controller. It is an architectural design pattern, which means it is used at an application’s architecture level. So, MVC is not a programming language. MVC is not a Framework.
It is a Design Pattern. When we design an application, we first create the architecture of that application, and MVC plays an important role in the architecture of that particular application.