Top 5 features of ASP.NET 5

Nowadays we can use ASP.NET 5 to build modern web applications. It is an opensource web framework and easily run and deployed on Linux, Mac, and windows operating system. It includes many different features like MVC 6 framework that’s a combination of Web API and MVC into a single web programming framework. You can add real-time functionality with cloud-connected apps. It happened due to ASP.NET 5 is base for signals 3. For maximum compatibility ASP.NET 5 can also run on .NET framework.

You can make a core web framework much modular as you can implement all features due to Nuget modules that allows you to optimize your app according to your requirements, and leaner as it did not require system.web.dll with ASP.NET5 architectural changes.

ASP.NET 5 provides the following features

1)  Cross-Platform Runtime

As we know that ASP.NET 5 can work with two different environment .NET core and .NET Framework to provide you a better experience and flexibility.

.NET Core: The .NET core runtime is a cross-platform and modular runtime with a small impression. .NET Core runtime has the following benefits.

A) You can run your application with a deployed version of runtime instead of that runtime which is installed on a host operating system. That makes easy to the app deployment and framework update.

B) The ASP.NET 5 provides a cross-platform version of .NET Core for Linux, Mac, and Windows operating system rather than that operating system you use for development.

c) .NET Core runtime will never ask you for update the runtime feature which is not relevant to your application. You can save your time on testing and deploying updates.

.NET Framework: The current .NET Core API is limited in compare of .NET Framework. So, for targeting .NET Core, you have to modify an existing app. If you do not want to modify you can run ASP.NET 5 application on the full .NET Framework. After doing this you can get full access to .NET Framework APIs and your existing libraries and application can work without modification on this runtime.

2) Fast HTTP performance:

ASP.NET 5 has introduced a modular HTTP request pipeline so you can add the component according to your requirements. A pipeline does not depend on system.web. By reducing upward in pipeline app can work better and tuned better HTTP stack. The pipeline is also supported OWIN.

You can use the configure method in your Startup class to customize the pipeline the configure method used to specify which middleware you want to use in your requested pipeline. ASP.NET 5 has introduced many different middlewares from katana project including middleware for authentication, diagnostics, and static files.

3) Dependency injection

ASP.NET Frameworks like SignalR, Web API and MVC supports the dependency injection but not the holistic way and consistent through the entire web stack. You can access service in middleware, in filters,  at startup, in model binding, virtually any part of the pipeline and in controllers wherever you want use your service. ASP.NET 5 has a minimum dependency injection container to bootstrap the system. but it also provides the facility of changing containers of your choice like Ninject, Autofac, etc.

4) Cloud-ready configure

The best feature of ASP.NET 5 is you not need to use Web.config file for configuration. The main aim of ASP.NET 5 is making easy to deploy an application to the cloud and automatically read the correct configuration value for particular environment. The new system allows you to request name value from different sources like XML, environment variable and XML you have to decide which format is best in your scenario.

5) MVC 6 – a unified programming model

Web API, Web Pages, and MVC frequently used together in developing solution and they provide complementary functionality. in past ASP.NET release, this framework was implemented separately due to this they have inconsistencies and duplication issues. In MVC 6 we can merge those models in a single programming model. Now you are able to create a single web app that handles the data services and Web UI without reconciling in the programing framework. You also able to transition a site first developed with a web page into a more robust MVC app.

Now you can return content-negotiated data and Razor views from same controller and using same MVC filter pipeline.

Conclusion

ASP.NET 5 has been nice upgrade over the previous versions. In this article we have been highlighted some of the key features of ASP.NET 5 that you should be aware of. If you are an ASP.NET developer who works with ASP.NET Development Company then you should know about these features.