Microsoft recently announced Asp.net version 2.0 with lot of new and exciting features and enhancement. This update comes on top of the first version i.e. Asp.net Core 1.0 also known as Asp.net 5.0.  To install Asp.net core 2.0 update:

Install Visual Studio 15.3 or later with the following workloads:

• ASP.NET and web development
• .NET Core cross-platform development

Various new features that have been shipped with asp.net core 2.0

• Razor Pages Support
• NET Core metapackage
• .NET Standard 2.0
• Runtime Store
• Configuration update
• Logging Update
• Authentication update
• Identity Update
• Kestrel improvements
• WebListener renamed to HttpSys
• Hosting startup and Application Insights
• Automatic use of anti-forgery tokens
• Automatic precompilation
• Razor support for C# 7.1

I will try to explain all these features in a series on blog posts. Keep watching for this space