in this article, I will show how to take a medium-small demo app written using Visual Studio 2013, ASP.NET 4.5, VC 5, and Entity Framework 6 and turn it into a working ASP.NET 5 app employing Visual Studio 2015, MVC 6 and Entity Framework 7. And the new app will happily run on either the .NET 4.6 CLR or the .NET Core CLR. Let's get started.

So when Microsoft acquired Xamarin in 2016 and started integrating the Xamarin Visual Studio plugins more with the standard VS features, I knew I had to try and switch over to take advantage of the powerful IDE and language. Some of the immediate benefits I gained from the switch are:

• Simple asynchronous programming
• Access to powerful plugins like ReSharper
• Freedom to work in Windows or OSX
• Access to powerful debugging tools for the Android on Windows (debugging iOS on Mac side is good but can be buggy).
• Access to built in NuGet package management for third party libraries 

MVC 6 should be out any day, so we need to be prepared.

The good thing is, it’s all very similar to MVC 5; the even better thing is, it got better! A couple of ways it is so cool, in my mind, are:

Without a doubt, maps are one of the most useful tools for users when included in an app. This tutorial is the first in a series going over Google Maps v2 for Android. It will cover setting up the Google Maps API through the Google Developer Console, including a map fragment in your applications, displaying the user's location, adding markers, drawing on the map, and some general methods that will add utility to your app.
Intermediate  & Advanced

If you want your OSS project to be successful… 

EtwProfiler is the new diagnoser for BenchmarkDotNet that I have just finished. It’s going to be released as part of 0.11.2. Soon! It allows to profile the benchmarked .NET code on Windows and exports the data to a trace file which can be opened with PerfView or Windows Performance Analyzer. 

In an earlier column, I suggested that one way to speed up your application was to reduce the trips you make to your database, specifically by avoiding calling a stored procedure multiple times. To enable that, I showed how to pass a stored procedure multiple parameter values in a single call and then, inside the stored procedure, load the parameters into a table where they could be integrated with other SQL statements.