Update from the future: .NET Core 1.0

While I’ve been in the process of writing this e-book, .NET has been busy working on the RTM version of .NET Core. Luckily for us, on June 27, 2016, the team released the new bits to the public. The components whose version number got bumped to 1.0 are:

• .NET Core
• ASP.NET Core
• Entity Framework Core

Just like the previous version, you can now use .NET Core with the following editors:

• Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 (of course)
• Visual Studio Code with the C# extension
• OmniSharp-enabled editor

For the full announcement with the complete list of changes (plus a getting started section and news about the .NET Foundation), head here. The new bits (Tooling + SDK) are available here.

Figure 23: A screenshot of the new command line

Migrating from ASP.NET Core RC2 to ASP.NET Core 1.0

The release of ASP.NET Core 1.0 brought some breaking changes that you need to be aware of in case you plan to migrate your RC2 project to new bits. There weren’t many significant changes to ASP.NET Core between the RC2 and 1.0 releases. For a complete list of changes, see the ASP.NET Core 1.0 announcements. This how-to is published inside the official ASP.NET Core documentation site.