Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Unleashed, Third Edition

Creating a New ASP.NET 5 MVC 6 Project

You can create an ASP.NET 5 MVC 6 application using the Visual Studio template ASP.NET 5 Web Site. You can access this application template from File, New, Project. You select the Web node in the template tree. You then select ASP.NET Web Application. Figure 17.17 shows an example.

FIGURE 17.17 You first select ASP.NET Web Application as your project template.

The next step is to select from one of the many ASP.NET project templates (refer to Figure 17.2). These templates were covered in the section “Choosing an ASP.NET Project Template.” Here we focus on the ASP.NET 5 Web Site template. However, much ...