ASP.NET 5 (and ASP.NET MVC 6) includes a new routing framework rewritten from the ground up. In this blog post, I’ve provided a deep dive into how this new framework works. 

This ebook is no fluff–just a developer-to-developer breakdown of what’s in store for .NET in 2015. Included are code snippets and step-by-step tutorials on handy new features and techniques.  

Building C#/ASP.NET Apps on a Mac With vNext 

This is a quick walkthrough on using ASP.NET 5 to build a Web API layer using MongoDB. 

Running ASP.NET 5 applications in Linux Containers with Docker 

this is not a small update. ASP.NET vNext is a major change that is as big as the step was from the original, classic Active Server Pages to ASP.NET. 

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