ASP.NET Core RC2 is no longer compatible with DNX

[Eilon]

Hi all,

ASP.NET Core RC2 is now compatible only with .NET CLI. ASP.NET Core RC2 is no longer compatible with DNX.

You can read more about the transition from DNX to .NET CLI on these blog posts:

• ASP.NET 5 is dead – Introducing ASP.NET Core 1.0 and .NET Core 1.0
• An Update on ASP.NET Core and .NET Core

This means that using Visual Studio 2015 with the ASP.NET 5 RC1 tooling will no longer work with the latest nightly builds (i.e. packages coming from https://www.myget.org/gallery/aspnetvnext). The RC1 tooling supports only DNX.

We kept everything compatible with DNX for as long as possible, but eventually we had to separate the two in order to help ship the ASP.NET Core RC2 release.

We are working on finalizing the ASP.NET Core RC2 release, including updated tooling and project templates for Visual Studio.

Visual Studio Code in the meantime works very well with ASP.NET Core RC2 nightly builds.

For discussions, please use dotnet/aspnetcore#1426.

Thanks,
Eilon