Friday, January 02, 2015

Asp.net vNext on OSX and Linux

Running Asp.net vNext on OSX and Linux:

"A preview of the latest Asp.net platform, vNext, has been released by Microsoft. It is completely open-source and has cross-platform capabilities. vNext embraces non-Windows hosts as first-class citizens.

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First, developers have to install Mono. Second, they have to install the “K Runtime Environment”, which is also known as KRE in general.

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KRE is the command line environment that will develop and run projects via new project.json project files. K Version Manager (KVM) handles the installation process of the KRE. This is a simple app that is able to install KRE’s multiple versions and allows developers to make a convenient switch between them
vNext = ASP.NET 5, that includes ASP.NET MVC 6 and EF7

It is a modular re-write of the platform on portable .NET Core, not completely compatible with previous versions. 






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