In this chapter, you learned about the offerings in Visual Studio. Step-by-step instructions are provided for installing the Visual Studio Community version, freely available for individual developers. We have also discussed the new project structure of the ASP.NET 5 application and the changes when compared to the previous versions.

In the next chapter, we are going to discuss the controllers and their roles and functionalities. We'll also build a controller and associated action methods and see how they work.