Long time readers of this blog or followers of the ASP.NET Community Standup know that this day was coming, and we have a released version of ASP.NET 4.6 framework and tools with Visual Studio 2015. Not only are we shipping ASP.NET 4.6, but we are also including with Visual Studio 2015 a bundle of ASP.NET 5 beta 5 runtime tools and libraries. There’s a lot of great new features in ASP.NET 4.6 and ASP.NET 5 that you need to know about. Let’s take a closer look at some of the bigger features in this release of Visual Studio.

ASP.NET 4.6 – More of the ASP.NET you know and enjoy

We are delivering updates to the existing ASP.NET 4.5.2 tools and frameworks that run on Windows and within Internet Information Server. The configuration and interaction with the operating system and web server that you have known has not changed, and you can continue to build with Web Forms, MVC, Web Pages Web API, and SignalR. In fact, the new versions of these frameworks are as follows:

ASP.NET Web Forms 4.6
ASP.NET MVC 5.2.3
ASP.NET Web Pages 3.2.3
ASP.NET Web API 5.2.3
ASP.NET SignalR 2.1.2

You can find a detailed description of the issues fixed in these frameworks in our announcement blog post about their release. Lets take a look at some code samples