Getting Started With ASP.NET 5 Web Application

Introduction

In this article we are going to learn ASP.NET 5, and how to create web applications using Visual Studio 2015. We are going to also learn new fundamental concepts of ASP.NET 5.

Creating ASP.NET 5 Web Application

The following are the steps to create ASP.NET 5 web application in Visual Studio 2015:

1. Start Visual Studio 2015.

2. From the File menu, select New -> Project.

3. Select the ASP.NET Web Application project template. It appears under Installed > Templates > Visual C# > Web. Name the project or leave as it is and click OK.

4. Select ASP.NET 5 Templates, then Web Application and click OK.

5. You can see the following screenshot, creating project ‘WebApplication1',

6. After that the following project is created successfully.

ASP.NET 5 Project Structure

The ASP.NET 5 defines the new project structure for the web application. In this structure it defines two folders in solution as follows:

1. Solution Items – it contains global.json file.

2. Src – it contains the web application.

The following image shows how new ASP.NET 5 project structure looks:

It also creates some initial folders for your projects as the above screen shot like – Controllers, Migrations, Models, ViewModels, and Views etc. In the above screen shot you can see two new folders are added in ASP.NET 5 Migrations (for Entity Framework) and ViewModels (for Data Transfer Objects (DTOs)).

The wwwroot Folder

It contains all the static files in your project; go into this folder. Code files are placed outside of this folder. This folder contains the clean and clear separation between the static files and code files.

The global.json File

This file contains the configuration of the project, created by visual studio. See following screen shot:

The appsettings.json File