{"id":383,"date":"2014-05-12T09:08:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T09:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/2014\/05\/12\/the-next-generation-of-net-asp-net-vnext\/"},"modified":"2021-09-30T16:49:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T23:49:29","slug":"the-next-generation-of-net-asp-net-vnext","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/the-next-generation-of-net-asp-net-vnext\/","title":{"rendered":"The Next Generation of .NET \u2013 ASP.NET vNext"},"content":{"rendered":"

Updated (2017):<\/strong> See .NET Framework Releases<\/a><\/strong> to learn about newer releases.<\/p>\n

Updated (July 2015):\u00a0See\u00a0Announcing .NET Framework 4.6<\/a>\u00a0to read about the latest version of the NET Framework.<\/p>\n

Today at TechEd North America, we announced the latest set of innovations that are part of the next generation of .NET. The biggest of those is ASP.NET vNext, which is an updated version of ASP.NET that been optimized for cloud Web development. We\u2019ve continued to improve the core .NET technologies that we shared at Build last month, specifically the .NET Native<\/a> ahead-of-time compiler and the .NET Next Generation JIT (\u201cRyuJIT\u201d)<\/a>. Both have new releases you can try out. We also have a set of smaller announcements to share.<\/p>\n

At Build last month, we announced the .NET Foundation. We are currently talking to over 25 community-based .NET projects and organizations about joining the foundation. The interest in the foundation has exceeded our expectations and is off to a great start.<\/p>\n

We also announced the .NET Compiler Platform (“Roslyn”)<\/a> at Build. It includes new C# and VB compilers and a preview of new language features being considered for C# 6. The project is open source on GitHub and has accepted its first pull requests from the community.<\/p>\n

The final release of Visual Studio 2013 Update 2<\/a> is now available. Update 2 brings dozens of significant new features<\/a> to Visual Studio developers, including tools for Windows Phone 8.1 and universal Windows apps<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While we\u2019re looking forward, it\u2019s also good to look at one of the current strengths of .NET. There are currently 1.8 billion active installs of .NET. That\u2019s a very large number by any measure and a great base of desktop and server machines on which to run your apps.<\/p>\n

TechEd .NET Announcements<\/h2>\n

Here\u2019s a quick rundown of the .NET announcements that we shared at TechEd.<\/p>\n