A New Version of ASP.NET

ASP.NET Core 1.0, previously known as ASP.NET 5, represents the biggest fundamental shift in how ASP.NET applications work since the original release of ASP.NET 1.0 in 2002. For developers and architects evaluating a microservices architecture, it’s important to understand the new capabilities of ASP.NET and how to take advantage of them in a microservices architecture. This chapter isn’t designed to give you an overview of everything that has changed in ASP.NET Core 1.0, which could be its own book, but rather to give you an overview of fundamental features you need to know about.