Microsoft continues to advance the development of ASP. NET Core 2, and the second major preview of the forthcoming web framework. This release sees the inclusion of SPA templates for Visual Studio 2017, the ability to configure limits on Kestrel, and support between. NET Framework and ASP. NET Core 2.
The second preview of ASP. NET Core 2 brings templates for Single Page Applications to Visual Studio 2017. While ASP. NET Core first introduced templates for Angular, Aurelia, Knockout, and React in February. However this latest preview, these templates are now also accessible from within Visual Studio’s new web application dialog– specifically including Angular, React.js, and React.js & Redux. (Aurelia and Vue are available via separate packages and not planned for default inclusion.)
Continuing the ability of trying to provide a compatibility bridge with legacy systems, ASP. NET Core 2 applications may now be built with the. NET Framework. One of the stated goals for ASP. NET Core 2 is that it will have the ability to run on ASP. NET Core 2.0 and. NET Framework 4.6.1 through its support for the. NET Standard 2.0.
The Kestrel web server sees various management and configuration additions. Limits can be set for the following parameters:
By adding the property latest to your project file, the latest C# 7.1 features – Default Expressions, Inferred Tuple Names, Pattern-Matching with Generics– can be used within ASP. NET Core 2.
A couple of items were pulled from Preview 2 that were previously demonstrated in Preview 1: NET Core Identify as a Service and default configuration schema for configuring HTTPS, certificates, and authentication. Microsoft promises that they will return at a later date after they have a chance for greater maturity.
ASP. NET Core 2 Preview 2 is available for download now, with the formal release scheduled for third quarter 2017.
