Transition to vNext

Kamil Radlak

radlak.kamil@gmail.com

Agenda

  1. First Steps, how to start?
  2. How to host your application?
  3. How does it work?
  4. How to work with it?

First Steps, how to start?

Visual Studio

  • Visual Studio 2015 Update 1
  • ASP.NET and Web Tools 2015 (RC1)
  • type in console 
    λ dnvm upgrade-self
λ dnvm update
  • and we are ready!

yo

You can also create and run project without Visual Studio by using npm

λ npm install -g yo bower generator-aspnet gulp

Changes, changes, changes

.xsproj

Projects are also nuget packages

Changes, changes, changes

web.config
packages.config
project.json
project.lock.json
whatever.json
global.asax
Startup.cs
global.json

How to host your application?

Different types of hosting

  • WebListener
  • Kestrel
  • IIS

Supported Request Features

WebListener

  • HTTP.SYS-based hosting
  • Windows only
  • Support features like multiple apps on single port

Kestrel

  • Self hosting on Mac OS X and Linux
  • Provided Docker image

IIS hosting

  • Install HttpPlatformHandler
  • Use App Pool as usually
  • But set "No Managed code"

Wait, what?

HttpPlatformHandler

IIS + Kestrel

How does it work?

New tools

DNVM
.Net Version Manager
DNU
Manages nuget packages in project
DNX
Executes commands

You can install additional commands

λ dnu commands install Microsoft.Dnx.Watcher
λ dnx-watch
  • Observes changes in code
  • Restarts application and recompile
  • You need only reload page

How to work with it

Pipeline

You have to explicitly specify what goes to the pipeline

app.UseMVC();|

See you soon