“Change
is the only truth of nature and it holds good to every material may it
be tangible or intangible! Microsoft’s ASP .NET vNext recently made its
debut to the IT industry with lots of precarious debates; but turned out
as a gem in the industry in a magical way. How? Let’s check it out!”
It’s now Open Source:
Industry has an orthodox psychology about Microsoft that it never ships
anything free of cost; with ASP .NET vNext, Microsoft proved that it
can offer a fully loaded web framework for the industry without any
premium. Previous versions of ASP .NET were proprietary where as ASP
.NET vNext is absolutely Open Source and it runs under the .NET
foundation for the development and enhancement of this Open Source
technology. As a result,
anyone can contribute to the platform and hence improving the
productivity of the framework with the support of the Open Source ASP
.NET vNext community.
NextGen ready smart sites with Cloud support:
Cloud technology has been the most gossiped topics of the industry
since its inception due to its supreme feature and usability. Though,
the industry is not yet absolutely ready to adopt cloud technology in
every web solution due to many feasibility constraints; still there is a
way that simply runs towards the cloud and definitely it will be well
achieved in future. Understanding the tremendous potential of cloud,
Microsoft has not made any mistake by making its vNext an absolute cloud ready.
It encourages ASP .NET developers to integrate cloud service to their
web application to make it future ready and deploy the application for
the smart browsers of smart devices in the industry. With cloud, the
developer will get adequate scope to store his user’s data over a virtually unlimited storage device in terms of cloud service. On the contrary,
this will boost the confidence of users to rely over cloud storage
services like Google Drive, Amazon cloud and Apple cloud service along
with Microsoft’s Azure cloud storage service.
Its core development process is Agile:
Gone are the days, when any software application was being developed in
an ample size and then the testers jump to test the application before
it went to the live stage. Now, there are concurrent processes following the agile methodology to improve the productivity
of any application development. There are always small or bit changes
happen in an application and it immediately goes to the production
stage, making the users benefited with the updated features of the
application. With ASP .NET vNext Microsoft is unmistakably encouraging
the agile methodology by releasing updates and bug fixes in a frequent manner so as to make it up-to-date with the industry. In fact,
with agile methodology, it tries to live up to the expectations and
demands of the industry by continuous effort from its Open Source
community. The best part is that it makes the changes over the cloud and enables the community to adopt the changes without any lag.
NuGet Packages:
Previously ASP .NET framework used to come as a full package to the
developer without any consideration about the needs and requirements of
the ASP .NET developer. Suppose you, a web developer needs only two
packages or libraries of ASP .NET then you didn’t have the option to
choose and keep only those two packages; instead you have to install all
the libraries to your system. Microsoft realized that this is an
inefficient way of resource handling and it directly contradicts with its newly developed ideology i.e., Agile development process.
Now with ASP .NET vNext, it passes the control to the .NET developer to
choose and assemble whatever permutation or combination of libraries or
namespaces that may required by the application development process. It
also ensures that the developer can add or remove any package in
between the development process in a hassle free manner. For example,
there is a system.Web node having a large number of namespaces like Microsoft.Runtime.Hosting, System.Configuration, System.Web.Caching, System.Web.Mail, System.Web.Routing and System.Web.Security
etc. Now the developer can take any number of required namespaces from
this assemble node. It makes the process to move away from monolithic
approach and removing the unnecessary dependencies from the framework
assemblies. In a nutshell,
NuGet package manager helps in automatically updating the reference
node in your vNext platform for efficient resource handling.
Cross platform development with vNext! This time ASP .NET vNext is not limited to windows environment. Rather, it can be run with non-Windows platforms like OS X and Linux so that you can deploy vNext projects without any Visual Studio or Windows environment. Again, it also provides support for mono, which is an unofficial cross platform CLR
for ASP .NET vNext. Mono is a platform that allows developers in
creating cross platform applications without much hassle. Again, Microsoft has included KRE
in mono to make the application run under different platforms. KRE is a
run-time environment that helps in the compilation and makes the
application cross platform compatible. You can also host your
application without any need of IIS by self hosting with vNext platform.
Roslyn Compiler is there: Now, there is a next generation compiler to compile your vNext ASP .NET application in a dynamic manner
i.e., with Roslyn compiler platform that enables your ASP .NET
application to be deployed and compiled in no time and makes you feel as
if inside an interpreted platform like PHP. Here the developer can
visualize the immediate changes over the browser with a refresh in no
time. This eliminates the annoying experience of the developer to wait
for the repetitive time consuming deployment process.
Reliable Pipelining solution: With
ASP .NET vNext, Microsoft has not left any stone unturned to boost the
performance of the application. Previously ASP .NET used to pass
requests that are being handled by event handlers, i.e., HTTPHandler
to perform the requested action. It was then needs to be passed through
a series of components upon which the developer had no control. This
time Microsoft realized that more optimal solution can be achieved with composible pipeline
technology. Now the developer can explicitly specify the only
components that are going to be used in the pipeline and hence making
the process more efficient and optimized than before. UseService() can help for the customized request call to the pipeline as a result, it enables the developer to customize the pipeline for different hosts.
Support- simply Microsoft standard!
Undoubtedly, when you are choosing ASP .NET vNext, you are going the
get the support that is of Microsoft standard and it will never
compromise on the quality of service for which it has been ruling the
industry for more than two decades now.
Mindfire
Solutions has a rich experience in developing ASP.NET based large-scale
web applications and high-performance of ASP.NET websites. Our skilled ASP.NET Team
is Microsoft MCTS certified or MVC Certifified and are abreast with the
latest developments in this area. If you want to avail the expert
ASP.NET services of our team, then do send in your queries to sales at
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