{"id":14914,"date":"2015-01-16T07:55:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T07:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/webdev\/2015\/01\/16\/making-it-better-updates-for-asp-net-5-in-visual-studio-2015-ctp-5\/"},"modified":"2024-01-22T13:40:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T21:40:58","slug":"making-it-better-updates-for-asp-net-5-in-visual-studio-2015-ctp-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/making-it-better-updates-for-asp-net-5-in-visual-studio-2015-ctp-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Making It Better: Updates for ASP.NET 5 in Visual Studio 2015 CTP 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been about two months since we released the first beta of ASP.NET 5, and today we happy to announce that ASP.NET 5 Beta2 is available. For developers using Visual Studio, you’ll find great new tools to support and enhance your development process.  All ASP.NET developers will be able to take advantage of a new runtime and many product quality improvements.<\/p>\n

You can download and install Visual Studio 2015 CTP5 by following the link at the top of the http:\/\/asp.net\/vnext<\/a> page.  If you want to try ASP.NET 5 with an alternate editor or on Mac or Linux, just follow the instructions on our ASP.NET GitHub project Home repo<\/a> to get setup using just a command prompt.  If you already have ASP.NET installed and only want to update your packages using NuGet you can simply run this command at the command prompt:<\/p>\n

kvm upgrade <\/span><\/p>\n

and the latest version of the ASP.NET runtime will be downloaded from NuGet and installed for you to use on your workstation.<\/p>\n

There are a ton of great new features available with this preview release, and in this post we’re going to cover a few of the ones that we have heard the most feedback about. You can also read about all of the new runtime enhancement by checking out the ASP.NET 5 Beta2 release notes<\/a> on GitHub.<\/p>\n

Reference existing projects from ASP.NET 5 projects<\/strong><\/p>\n

In previous preview releases you could only reference other ASP.NET 5 projects from an ASP.NET 5 project. You can now reference your existing projects from an ASP.NET 5 project using the Add Reference dialog. <\/p>\n

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Run and debug commands defined in project.json<\/strong><\/p>\n

In addition to being able to run and debug your project you can now also run and debug any command defined in your project.json file directly from Visual Studio.<\/p>\n

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The default project.json for the ASP.NET 5 Starter Web template includes commands for self-hosting, MVC scaffolding, and for Entity Framework migrations.<\/p>\n

    “commands”: {<\/span><\/p>\n

        \/* Change the port number when you are self hosting this application *\/<\/span><\/p>\n

        “web”: “Microsoft.AspNet.Hosting –server Microsoft.AspNet.Server.WebListener –server.urls http:\/\/localhost:5000”,<\/span><\/p>\n

        “gen”: “Microsoft.Framework.CodeGeneration”,<\/span><\/p>\n

        “ef”: “EntityFramework.Commands”<\/span><\/p>\n

    },<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/div>\n

This update will allow you to continue running in Visual Studio if you don’t want to bring up a command prompt to execute these commands. The new “gen” command allows developers with any editor to scaffold ASP.NET MVC components easily at the command line.  Here’s a quick example of how easy it is to generate an MVC Controller:<\/p>\n

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Select which browser to use when running or debugging<\/strong><\/p>\n

Select which browser you want to use (ex. IE, Chrome, Firefox, etc.) when running or debugging an ASP.NET 5 web application from within Visual Studio.<\/p>\n

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Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n

We hope you enjoy these new improvements.  Some of these changes have been implemented due to the feedback we received.  Remember: we are working with the community to ensure that this is the best release of ASP.NET yet.  Get involved, and join the conversation on our GitHub project<\/a> to let us know what you think!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been about two months since we released the first beta of ASP.NET 5, and today we happy to announce that ASP.NET 5 Beta2 is available. For developers using Visual Studio, you’ll find great new tools to support and enhance your development process.  All ASP.NET developers will be able to take advantage of a new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":405,"featured_media":58792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[4,30,7489,7465,7262,7286,7494,7491],"class_list":["post-14914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aspnet","tag-net","tag-announcement","tag-asp-net-5","tag-asp-net-vnext","tag-development","tag-mvc","tag-project-k","tag-visual-studio-2015"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

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