Upgrading your ASP.NET 5 project from Beta 7 to Beta 8
Microsoft just released ASP.NET 5 and Entity Framework Beta 8. There were some breaking changes which require some changes in existing code. All changes can be found here: Announcing Availability of ASP.NET 5 Beta8 As with every upgrade you should change the -beta7 to -beta8 in the global.json and in all package.json files. Below I address the things I found which need to be corrected: Package.json Remove these dependencies: "Microsoft.AspNet.Server.IIS": "1.0.0-beta7" "Microsoft.AspNet.Server.WebListener": "1.0.0-beta7" and replace them with: "Microsoft.AspNet.IISPlatformHandler": "1.0.0-beta8" "Microsoft.AspNet.Server.Kestrel": "1.0.0-beta8" Finally add this one: "Microsoft.Framework.Logging.Debug" : "1.0.0-beta8" Now change the web command "web": "Microsoft.AspNet.Hosting --config hosting.ini" to "web": "Microsoft.AspNet.S