DNX - .NET Execution Environment and ASP.Net 5

DNX - .NET Execution Environment and ASP.Net 5

The .NET Execution Environment (DNX) is a software development kit (SDK) and runtime environment that has everything you need to build and run .NET applications for Windows, Mac and Linux. It provides a host process, CLR hosting logic and managed entry point discovery. DNX was built for running cross-platform ASP.NET Web applications, but it can run other types of .NET applications, too, such as cross-platform console apps.

ASP.NET 5 you gain the following foundational improvements:

·         New light-weight and modular HTTP request pipeline

·         Ability to host on IIS or self-host in your own process

·         Built on .NET Core, which supports true side-by-side app versioning

·         Ships entirely as NuGet packages

·         Integrated support for creating and using NuGet packages

·         Single aligned web stack for Web UI and Web APIs

·         Cloud-ready environment-based configuration

·         Built-in support for dependency injection

·         New tooling that simplifies modern Web development

·         Build and run cross-platform ASP.NET apps on Windows, Mac and Linux

·         Open source and community focused

Source:

http://docs.asp.net/en/latest/conceptual-overview/aspnet.html

http://docs.asp.net/en/latest/dnx/overview.html