Perhaps you’e read the news last week from Scott Hanselman already, but if you haven’t, allow me to bring you up to speed. ASP.NET 5 is now know as ASP.NET Core 1.0. Note that this name change does not indicate that it has been released. That happy event is still expected in the next few months. To some, the change may seem like a meaningless marketing change, but I’m thrilled about it. I think the new name more clearly represents the important same-ness and important different-ness of this new version of ASP.NET. New, But Different I’ve been doing talks about this new version of ASP.NET, and I’ve found it difficult to explain. ASP.NET Core 1.0 is actually a new framework rewritten for
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Part of a Series This post is part 2 of a series: 1. New ASP.NET 5 Project from Scratch with Visual Studio 2015 – Part 1 2. New ASP.NET 5 Project from Scratch with Visual Studio 2015 – Part 2 (this one) If you’re not already somewhat familiar with ASP.NET 5, I’d recommend reading part 1 first. In that post, I showed you how to create a new empty ASP.NET 5 project in Visual Studio 2015. Now I’ll show you how to set up that project for ASP.NET MVC Why Not Web Forms? Ok, it’s worth mentioning why I chose MVC instead of Web Forms. There may actually have been several reasons, but
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I had fun last night speaking at New River Valley .NET User Group in Blacksburg, VA. I gave my “30 Tools for Modern .NET Web Development” talk, one of my favorites to give. Thanks to everyone that came out, and to the meetup organizers for hosting me. If you attended and enjoyed it, don’t forget to donate a little something for clean water here: http://bit.ly/nrv-gives. I promised that I’ll give $25 if the meetup group gives $25 or more as a group in the next 7 days. So, in a way, if you didn’t like it, maybe you should donate even more! In all seriousness, I had a blast, and look forward to seeing
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