I finally had a chance to get our codebase to the release candidate of ASP.NET 5. Excited to have a supported release available and more-or-less production-ready! As usual, here are my personal release notes to my team on the upgrade process.
Good Afternoon, Everyone:
The upgrade to release candidate 1 (update 1) has been completed. As with previous beta updates, Visual Studio requires updated tooling; this time it's in the form of Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 (download) (release notes).
And don’t forget to update your dnvm stuff from the command line:
dnvm upgradeYou may want to remove all other betas from your user folder:
C:\Users\{YOUR PROFILE}\.dnx\runtimesThe following announcements/issues were relevant to our codebase to some degree:
- Moving towards unification of entry point semantics with desktop CLR
- Switching to new 'dotnet' target framework monikers
- webroot definition moved from project.json to hosting.json
- ConfigurationBuilder SetBasePath is now optional
- EntityFramework.SqlServer package renamed to EntityFramework.MicrosoftSqlServer
- Authentication: AutomaticAuthentication has been split
- Microsoft.Framework.* has been renamed to Microsoft.Extensions.*
And just a couple to take note of:
- SecretManager package has been renamed to Microsoft.Extensions.SecretManager
- New versioning for major releases
- Templates repo is now public
- Changes to `dnvm` parameters
Some additional references: