ASP.NET 5 Visual Studio 2015 Templates Bill Wolff Rob Keiser June 10, 2015

ASP.NET 5 MVC 6 Unified programming model – Razor, WebAPI, Web Pages Tag helpers – Extend tag semantics – More readable, Angular style markup View components – Mini-controllers, Service and type filters for IoC

VS 2013 Add Project VS 2013 – Web form – MVC – Web API

VS 2015 Add Project VS 2015 – 4.6 MVC 5 – 5 MVC 6

MVC 5 Solution These folders stay – Properties – References – Controllers – Models – Views These do not – App_Data, App_Start, Content, fonts, Scripts

MVC 6 Solution Items Project info Solution level settings Project to project references

MVC 6 Template Solution layout New folders – wwwroot Can rename – Dependencies – Compiler

MVC 5 Root Files These go away – Favicon Move to wwwroot – Global.asax – Packages.config Move to project.json – Startup.cs – Web.Config Appsettings, connection strings

MVC 6 Root files JSON configurations + CSharp – Bower: JS + CSS frameworks – Config: settings, connections – Gulpfile: client build tasks – MessageService: 2 factor auth – Package: package versions – Project: dependencies, secrets, commands, frameworks, excludes, scripts – Startup: initialization code

MVC 5 Properties C# attributes

MVC 6 Properties AppSettings class

MVC 5 References Add assemblies

MVC 6 References.NET frameworks

MVC 5 App_Data, App_Start Local databases Startup code – Bundlers – Routes – Filters – Auth

MVC 5 Content, fonts, Scripts Content Fonts Scripts All move to wwwroot

MVC 6 wwwroot Static files – Styles – Images – Lib JavaScript frameworks CSS frameworks – Favicon Can rename

MVC 6 Dependencies JS build tools – Bower Client frameworks – NPM Node package manager

MVC 6 Compiler folder Razor pre-compilation MVC 5 > in csproj file – true

MVC 5 > MVC 6 Controllers folder Naming convention – Define IActionResults

MVC 6 Migrations folder EF code-first database – optional

MVC 6 Models folder Data model classes – Annotation hints

MVC 6 Views folder Sub folder per controller – _Global imports – _ViewStart sets layout

MVC 6 Razor views CSHTML pages

MVC 6 Razor shared _Layout _LoginPartial _ValidationScriptsPartial Errors

New: Environment tag Conditional per level Set library locations

MVC 5 Layout sections Bundle render Explicit ActionLink commands Partial pages Content placeholder Scripts at the end

MVC 6 Layout sections AppSettings inject New link tag helpers Async fragments Content placeholder Scripts at the end

MVC 6 Add a Page Copy an existing Razor view page – Or make a new one Rename the page Add a method to an existing controller Add menu link on _Layout page