ASP.NET 5 (vNext), MVC 6 and Entity Framework 7

History of ASP (18 years)

• 1996 - Active Server Pages (ASP)
• 2002 – ASP.NET
• 2008 – ASP.NET MVC
• 2010 – ASP.NET Web Pages
• 2012 – ASP.NET Web API, SignalR
• 2014 – ASP.NET 5

What is Different in ASP.NET 5?

• Rebuild from ground up
• Request pipeline light and fast
• Cross-platform
• Host Anywhere
• Better Performance
• Middlewares & Custom Middleware
• Package Management
  • ASP.NET 5 introduces a new, lightweight way to manage dependencies in your projects
    • No more assembly references
    • Instead referencing NuGet packages
  • project.json file
• Other Improvements

MVC + Web API + Web Pages = ASP.NET MVC 6!

• MVC, Web API, and Web Pages are merged into a single framework called MVC 6
• Solution layout

• MVC 6 Root files
  • JSON configurations + CSharp
  • Bower: JS + CSS frameworks
  • Config: settings, connections
  • Gulpfile: client build tasks
  • Package: package versions
  • Project: dependencies, secrets, commands, frameworks, excludes, scripts
  • Startup: initialization code