Today when you create an ASP.NET Core application, you will find “gulpfile.js” present in your project structure (At the time of writing this post with RC2 release). However Microsoft is making a move with task runner and Gulp is no longer the default choice for ASP.NET Core application in a future release. It’s time to say “Goodbye Gulp“. And it is replaced with a new VS extension called BundlerMinifier. Gulp will be removed from default ASP.NET Core project template, but if you wish to use then, you can add it back. Earlier, an announcement was made about Project.json going away and now its turn for Gulp.
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News: Project.json for ASP.NET Core is going away
Yes, you read it right. Project.JSON for ASP.NET Core is going away. One of the biggest change with ASP.NET Core 1.0 was moving towards JSON over XML for configuration settings. And Project.json is the way to define dependencies, managing your runtime frameworks, compilation settings, adding scripts to execute at different events (Prebuild, Postbuild etc.). Read More
ASP.NET 5 is now ASP.NET Core 1.0
Last week Microsoft announced that ASP.NET 5.0 has been renamed to ASP.NET Core 1.0. And it’s a welcome change and quite needed to address the confusion. As ASP.NET 5 is completely a new platform to build cross platform applications and it was written from scrath. The latest version of ASP.NET is 4.6 and It is possible to run ASP.NET 5 on top of the full .NET 4.6 Framework/platform or to run ASP.NET 5 on .NET Core.
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