# Welcome to ASP.NET 5 Preview

We've made some big updates in this release, so it’s **important** that you spend a few minutes to learn what’s new.

ASP.NET 5 has been rearchitected to make it **lean** and **composable**. It's fully **open source** and available on [GitHub](http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=517854).
Your new project automatically takes advantage of modern client-side utilities like [Bower](http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=518004) and [npm](http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=518005) (to add client-side libraries) and [Gulp](http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=518007) (for client-side build and automation tasks).

We hope you enjoy the new capabilities in ASP.NET 5 and Visual Studio 2015.
The ASP.NET Team

### You've created a new ASP.NET 5 project. [Learn what's new](http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=518016)

### This application consists of:
* Sample pages using ASP.NET MVC 6
* [Gulp](http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=518007) and [Bower](http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=518004) for managing client-side resources
* Theming using [Bootstrap](http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=398939)

#### NEW CONCEPTS
* [The 'wwwroot' explained](http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=518008)
* [Configuration in ASP.NET 5](http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=518012)
* [Dependency Injection](http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=518013)
* [Razor TagHelpers](http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=518014)
* [Manage client packages using Gulp](http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=517849)
* [Develop on different platforms](http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=517850)

#### CUSTOMIZE APP
* [Add Controllers and Views](http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=398600)
* [Add Data using EntityFramework](http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=398602)
* [Add Authentication using Identity](http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=398603)
* [Add real time support using SignalR](http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=398606)
* [Add Class library](http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=398604)
* [Add Web APIs with MVC 6](http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=518009)
* [Add client packages using Bower](http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=517848)

#### DEPLOY
* [Run your app locally](http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=517851)
* [Run your app on ASP.NET Core 5](http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=517852)
* [Run commands in your 'project.json'](http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=517853)
* [Publish to Microsoft Azure Web Sites](http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=398609)
* [Publish to the file system](http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=518019)

We would love to hear your [feedback](http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=518015)
