ASP.NET Core 1 (formerly ASP.NET 5.0) development works great in Visual Studio Code https://code.visualstudio.com/ https://code.visualstudio.com/, which is FOSS

ASP.NET Core 1 (formerly ASP.NET 5.0) development works great in Visual Studio Code https://code.visualstudio.com/ https://code.visualstudio.com/, which is FOSS (MIT license) https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/ https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/ and works on Linux and OS X as well as Windows. A lot of people don't realize that Visual Studio Code is, in fact, it's own product and not a version of full Visual Studio.