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Microsoft ASP.NET and Web Tools 2015 (Canary - Sep 21)
This download contains the latest Canary release of Visual Studio 2015 tooling for ASP.NET 5. A "Canary" build is one that is designed to be using the latest bits and used to identify issues early on. This is a pre-release build and unsupported. It's intended for developer preview of upcoming changes.
Prerequisites
You will need to have already installed Visual Studio 2015. If you have already installed ASP.NET 5 beta5, beta6 or beta7 that's OK.
The Canary releases are only designed to work with English builds. If you are using a localized build, to try the Canary release you will need to configure Visual Studio to use English.
What's new?
- Ability to hide files from solution explorer
- Support for generating content from
.resx
files - Updates to error list to show error codes for ASP.NET 5
- Info bar in solution explorer to indicate when package restore is in progress
How to install the build
There are two installer files in this release, select the msi accoriding to your Visual Studio build.
- WebToolsExtensionsVS14.msi - Use this for Visual Studio Pro+
- WebToolsExtensionsVWD14.msi - Use this for Visual Studio Community and Visual Studio Web Express
How to roll back to a more stable build
To go back to a more stable build there are two steps.
- Uninstall the Canary build
- Install a previous release
To Uninstall the Canary build, from Add Remove Programs, uninstall Microsoft ASP.NET and Web Tools 2015 (Canary - Sep 21)
To install a previous build see the links below.
- ASP.NET 5 Beta7
- ASP.NET 5 Beta6
- ASP.NET 5 Beta5 (Note: same build as what's included in Visual Studio 2015 RTM)
Known issues
Canary builds are designed to work with the latest ASP.NET 5 runtime packages (by using *
in the package dependency in project.json
). Because of this you may run into issues after File->New Project
when you try to build and run your application. For more info on breaking changes see the announcements repository. More specifically you can look at the beta8 changes.
Where to get help
If you have any issues with this Canary release you can use the following resources for getting help.
- ASP.NET 5 Home repository - For issues related to ASP.NET 5 runtime, you can file an issue on GitHub
- ASP.NET 5 Tooling repository - For issues related to ASP.NET 5 tooling, you can file an issue on GitHub