Making ASP.Net vNext open source is by itself a major step forward for the platform, but it’s far from the only enhancement. Web Platform Team architect Scott Hanselman wrote in detail about ...

ASP.NET vNEXT As part of today’ announcement, Microsoft also announced a preview of the next version of its web development framework ASP.NET, dubbed ASP.NET vNEXT.

Christie goes further to demonstrate how he managed to get ASP.NET vNext up on OS X and Linux; this proves Microsoft’s claim of the framework’s cross-platform functionality.

However since web-forms is an intrinsic part of ASP.NET and the .NET Framework, the new await support will be available when vNext versions of the overall .NET Framework are available.

ASP.NET vNext ASP.NET vNext is the next form of ASP.NET, as its name implies, but it’s optimized for the cloud. It has much richer layering, so an app can carry only the pieces it needs.

Microsoft officials is beginning to share publicly details about the next version of the company's ASP.NET, its server-side Web-development framework, on May 12.