Introducing ASP.NET 5

In late 2014, Microsoft released all of .NET to open source under the MIT license. Visual Studio 2015 and ASP.NET 5 (previously referred to as vNext) represent the first released versions of the products since Microsoft open sourced ASP.NET and the .NET Core framework. This includes the core .NET base class libraries, the Common Language Runtime (CLR), the Just-In-Time compiler (JIT), and the Garbage Collector (GC). This new approach has resulted in many exciting changes to the product, including these:

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ASP.NET allowing self-hosting ...

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