ASP.NET Core - Write Apps with Visual Studio Code and Entity Framework

Open source and cross-platform development are crucial for Microsoft’s current and future strategies. Many building blocks of the .NET stack have been open sourced, while others have been developed to embrace and support the new strategy. ASP.NET Core 1.0, currently in Release Candidate (RC) mode, is the most recent open source technology for building cross-platform applications for the Web and cloud, running on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.