The power of the global.json

Leveraging .NET Core Tooling Features

David Pine

3 minute read

Introduction As I’m sure you’re all aware by now, Monday June 27th was a special day for those of you who were anticipating the release of .NET Core and ASP.NET Core. While the “core” frameworks and runtimes are RTM, the tooling is actually still in preview. In fact, we’re currently on Tools Preview 2. I wanted to focus this post entirely on one specific enhancement to Visual Studio solutions, enter the global.

ASP.NET Core RC2 (Migration Guide)

Migrating from RC1 to RC2

David Pine

9 minute read

Introduction On Monday, May 16th 2016 there was an amazing announcement from the .NET Blog team! Announcing .NET Core RC2 and .NET Core SDK Preview 1 This post will serve as a guide that walks you through the steps as I experienced them from migrating existing ASP.NET Core RC1 applications to ASP.NET Core RC2. It is worth mentioning that I’m am targeting the .NET 4.6 framework. So, I do not cover the .