With ASP.NET 5 we are making a number of architectural changes that makes the core web framework much leaner (it no longer requires ) and more modular (almost all features are now implemented as NuGet modules - allowing you to optimize your app to have just what you need).
NET Core runtime, but it can also be run on the full. ASP.NET 5 will also be the basis for SignalR 3 - enabling you to add real time functionality to cloud connected applications. It includes the MVC 6 framework, which now combines the features of MVC and Web API into a single web programming framework. The ASP.NET 5 preview is now available as a preview release, and you can start using it today by downloading the latest CTP of Visual Studio 2015 which we just made available.ĪSP.NET 5 is an open source web framework for building modern web applications that can be developed and run on Windows, Linux and the Mac. As part of this release we are making ASP.NET leaner, more modular, cross-platform, and cloud optimized. This new release is one of the most significant architectural updates we've done to ASP.NET. I'm excited today to post about a new release of ASP.NET that we are working on that we are calling ASP.NET 5. Since then millions of developers have used it to build and run great web applications, and over the years we have added and evolved many, many capabilities to it. The first preview release of ASP.NET 1.0 came out almost 15 years ago.
