This would be a lot more exciting if it actually worked with IIS but it looks like they rushed this out, calling it a "release candidate" in order to be able to

This would be a lot more exciting if it actually worked with IIS but it looks like they rushed this out, calling it a "release candidate" in order to be able to say it was out in time for the Connect conference without actually hitting the kind of bar one expects from a release candidate. Their github issue pages are full of unresolved issues around problems with ASP.NET 5 and IIS [0][1][2], and the official docs on publishing ASP.NET 5 to IIS have a significant and incomplete list of "common errors" people are encountering [3]. Personally, I'm seeing responses from Kestrel when hitting ASP.NET 5 hosted pages under IIS, but they are zero-byte error 404 responses which don't help much. It's all great in Visual Studio but it's a big zero when trying to actually use it for real. This is not a release candidate. At best it's a 9th beta. [0] https://github.com/aspnet/IISIntegration/issues/14 https://github.com/aspnet/IISIntegration/issues/14 [1] https://github.com/aspnet/Hosting/issues/466 https://github.com/aspnet/Hosting/issues/466 [2] https://github.com/aspnet/Hosting/issues/364 https://github.com/aspnet/Hosting/issues/364 [3] https://docs.asp.net/en/latest/publishing/iis.html https://docs.asp.net/en/latest/publishing/iis.html