Creating ASP.NET 5 application

It's time to get our hands dirty. Let us create a simple ASP.NET 5 application. Fire up Visual Studio and follow these steps:

1. Create a project by selecting File | New Project in Visual Studio. The first option is for creating an earlier version of the ASP.NET Web application. The second option is for creating the ASP.NET Core application using the .NET Core framework. The third option is for creating the ASP.NET Core application using the .NET framework. The difference between the second and third option is that the .NET framework supports all the functionalities of existing .NET frameworks whereas .NET Core supports only the core functionalities. The advantage of using the .NET core library is that it can be deployed on any platform.
   

2. Select the Empty template from the list of ASP.NET 5 templates. The second option is for creating the Web API application (for building the HTTP-based services) and the third option is for creating a web application containing...