- Project format is changing to a single JSON file
- ASP.NET MVC and Web API have been unified into a single programming model
- Project Roslyn allows for a “no-compile” developer experience while making updates
- Migration to a OWIN hosting model allows for flexibility in production web hosts (IIS or running on Linux via Mono)

Using the Docker client from Windows and getting AspNet vNext running in a Docker Container
 

Docker is a popular open source containerization tool.  

ASP.NET 5 supports POCO controllers. Yes, controller classes that doesn’t extend Controller base class.  

Getting started with ASP.NET 5 MVC 6 Web API & Entity Framework 7 

@Html.ActionLink("Log in", "Login", "Account", routeValues: null, htmlAttributes: new { id = "loginLink" })

<a id="loginLink" controller="Account" action="Login">Log in</a>

src folder contains all projects that contain source code that make up your application.