The quickest way to expose yourself to the new project templates in Visual Studio 2015 is to start using them. For ASP.NET Core, there are currently three project templates that you can use.
Launch Visual Studio 2015, then click File | New | Project. Within Visual C# | Web templates, select a template for ASP.NET Core Web Application to proceed. As of the Core 1.0 release, there are two different versions: one that uses the all-new .NET Core runtime, and another that uses the full .NET Framework, as shown in the following screenshot:
In pre-release versions, there were other project types available as the Web templates. These are now listed under .NET Core instead, and are as follows:
ASP.NET Web Application
Class Library (Package)
Console Application (Package)
The project template for ASP.NET Core 1.0 creates a console application that has a Main
method in a Program.cs
file as its entry point. This is similar to other console applications you may already...