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Reputation: 16831

ASP.NET 5: What is the difference between the "dnx451" and the "aspent50" frameworks?

In Visual Studio 2015, I've created a new ASP.NET MVC 5 Web API project. When I looked at the project.json that was created I saw this bit of configuration:

  "frameworks": {
    "dnx451": { },
    "dnxcore50": { }
  },

Since I needed to use EF6 and following advice in the answer to a question, I've removed the reference to "dnxcore50".

However, the answer to another question mentions an altogether different framework: "aspnet50".

What is the difference between "dnx451" and "aspent50"?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 677

Answers (1)

Maxime Rouiller
Maxime Rouiller

Reputation: 13699

The new ASP.NET 5 is very new and still very changing. Even the naming changed.

There was an announcement that changed the name aspnet50 and aspnetcore50 to dnx451/dnx452/dnxcore50 back in April.

Then at the end of October, dnxcore50 became dotnet5.4 and dnx451 became net451.

So yeah... those should be the final rename and we shouldn't see any new monikers as they are called.

About removing dnxcore50

When you need to do that, it's basically because a library that you are using might not support dnxcore50 yet so compilation fails. dnxcore (or dotnet5.4) will works cross-platform while net451 will only work on Windows.

Upvotes: 2

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