VS 2015 Preview missing "ASP.NET 5 Web Application" project type?

Question

In Visual Studio 2015 Preview, I see the following vNext templates in the "New Project" window:

I am under the impression that I should also see an entry for "ASP.NET 5 Empty Web Application" or something similar, but I see no such thing. Those two entries are the only "vNext" designated entries that I have installed.

Is there an additional binary I need to install in order to enable this type of project to appear? Or do I need to examine my VS 2015 Preview installation?

Note: I do have an entry for "ASP.NET Web Application", which takes me through the setup with the unified architecture but does not appear to include a project.json file or things that I'm associating with ASP.NET 5 development.

Update: Per this article regarding 2013 I also tried to run devenv.exe /installvstemplates, but that didn't work either. To clarify, I don't see any new web template, which the screenshot below illustrates as well:

Solution 1

Visual Studio Ultimate 2015 Preview contains everything you need to create an ASP.NET 5 (vNext) web application. One additional generic option should be available that's not depicted in your question:

It's not entirely clear at this point, but choosing the generic web application option will present a few ASP.NET 5 (vNext) options that you're seeking in the following dialog:

Solution 2

I was having the same problem, except that unlike the accepted answer suggests, the ASP.NET Web Application was not on the list of templates at all.

I was able to get it to show up after following the instructions from this article.

1. From Visual Studio 2015: Tools -> Extensions and Updates
2. Select Online then click Visual Studio Gallery
3. Search for ASP.NET Project Templates and download the first result.
4. Go through installation process, relaunch Visual Studio, and Web Application should now be an option!

Alternately, you can download the templates directly here.

I believe this download actually is meant to install some other templates that I wasn't interested in, but installing them must have also installed the base template in the process. Either way, it worked for me.

Solution 3

In Visual Studio 2015 Preview Microsoft has renamed ASP.NET vNext to ASP.NET 5

If you open http://www.asp.net/vnext, in every article vNext is metioned as ASP.NET 5

Solution 4

In following Sam's Suggestion, I noticed that there were Updates Pending. One of these updates included the missing ASP.NET 5 templates.

Tools > Extensions & Updates > Updates > Visual Studio Gallery

Once updated & Installed, the Web Application was then available as described in the tutorial.

Solution 5

The new update released this week has renamed ASP.NET 5 into a new framework which they are now calling ASP.NET Core. More information can be found in this article https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/webdev/2016/05/16/announcing-asp-net-core-rc2/

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Comments

[SeanKilleen]

I am attempting to repair my VS 2015 installation now to see if that remedies the situation.

[SeanKilleen]

After a repair of VS 2015, I still do not see any options for "ASP.NET 5 Web Application" or similar.

[Roman Starkov]

Selecting a different target .NET Framework version changes the templates listed. Just one thing to try if you can't find the right template.

[SeanKilleen]

Awesome! That might very well be it. And in that case, it wouldn't carry the blue "vNext" overlay still, correct? Because I'd looked for that previously. Repairing VS now but once that's done I'll check to confirm.

[SeanKilleen]

Also, I'm aware of all of the references to ASP.NET 5, but I don't recall seeing an ASP.NET 5 project in the list, only "ASP.NET Web Application" which seemed to be the old style. I'll check and confirm.

[SeanKilleen]

So it turns out I'm not sure this is the answer. While I agree that you're correct about asp.net 5 vs vNext, I still don't see an "ASP.NET 5 web application" option in VS 2015; only "ASP.NET Web Application" which does not use project.json, etc. I'll update the question to reflect the terminology though. Thanks!

[SeanKilleen]

That was 100% the issue. THANK YOU!

[jp2code]

Thanks for posting up. No wonder I wasn't able to find the ASP.NET 5 templates! I spent a good hour or more trying different updates & restarting, and the ****ing thing was there the whole time!

[sdjuan]

For anyone else searching , this added the missing "ASP .Net Core Web Application (.NET Core) Visual C#" that was missing from my copy of VS 2015 Professional even after doing update 3.