ASP.NET 5 is now ASP.NET Core 1.0
If you are tracking the progress of ASP.NET 5 you are probably aware of the
recent announcement regarding the naming changes to ASP.NET 5. Scott Hanselman
wrote a blog post that explains these changes. You can read his post
here.
To summarize the changes :
- .NET Core 5 is now .NET Core 1.0
- ASP.NET 5 is now ASP.NET Core 1.0
- ASP.NET MVC 6 is now ASP.NET Core MVC 1.0
- Entity Framework 7 is now Entity Framework Core 1.0
This article aims at familiarizing you with
these changes so that you can get an idea as to what's coming up next.
Web Application build with ASP.NET Core 1.0
Have a look at the following figure that shows how a typical ASP.NET Core 1.0
web application will look like:
The topmost layer is your web application that is built using ASP.NET Core
1.0. Assuming that this application is a typical data driven application, you
will use :
- ASP.NET Core MVC 1.0 to develop that application's user interface and program
flow (Model - View - Controller concepts remain the same as in case of MVC
5.x).
- Entity Framework Core 1.0 (EF Core 1.0) for database programming.
The web application built using ASP.NET Core 1.0 can target .NET
Framework 4.6 and / or .NET Core. The .NET Framework 4.6 runs on top of some
flavor of Windows operating system such as Windows 7 / 8 / 8.1 / 10. On the
other hand .NET Core 1.0 is a cross platform framework and runs on top of
Windows and Non-windows operating systems. The .NET Core 1.0 doesn't include all
the features and functionality of .NET Framework 4.6 (as of this writing).
Impact on the code written using RC1
You might have developed some projects using RC1 of ASP.NET 5, MVC 6 and
Entity Framework 7. Although it's not crystal clear at this point in time as to
how much rework you will need to do to get older code working on the new
frameworks, here are
some clues
:
- NuGet packages, assemblies and namespaces with current names of the form
Microsoft.AspNet.* will change to Microsoft.AspNetCore.*
- NuGet packages, assemblies and namespaces with current names of the form
EntityFramework.* will change to Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.*
- The version numbers of all the above NuGet packages and assemblies will
be reset to 1.0
Ok. That's it for now! Keep coding!!
