--- title: Building future .NET projects is quite pleasant | daily.dev description: An exploration of how ASP.NET 5 (then known as Project K / ASP.NET vNext) changes the .NET build experience, contrasting it with the painful, dependency-heavy... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/building-future-net-projects-is-quite-pleasant-h6cftvpyp twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Building future .NET projects is quite pleasant | daily.dev og:description: An exploration of how ASP.NET 5 (then known as Project K / ASP.NET vNext) changes the .NET build experience, contrasting it with the painful, dependency-heavy... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/building-future-net-projects-is-quite-pleasant-h6cftvpyp og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/h6CFtVpYP.png og:image:alt: Building future .NET projects is quite pleasant og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Building future .NET projects is quite pleasant **[Maarten Balliauw](https://daily.dev/sources/maartenballiauw)** · 10 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary An exploration of how ASP.NET 5 (then known as Project K / ASP.NET vNext) changes the .NET build experience, contrasting it with the painful, dependency-heavy builds of earlier .NET versions. The new system uses project.json and global.json to declare dependencies explicitly, making builds self-contained and portable across Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. The author walks through building the Entity Framework repository using build.cmd, which bootstraps NuGet, KoreBuild, Sake, and the CoreCLR runtime without any pre-installed SDKs. A hands-on TeamCity integration is then built from scratch to automate restore, build, test, and packaging steps on a clean build agent, including publishing NuGet artifacts and running tests via the ASP.NET 5 xUnit runner. The piece concludes with optimism about the new tooling and shares custom TeamCity meta-runners for others to use. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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