This would be a lot more exciting if it actually worked with IIS but it looks like they rushed this out, calling it a &quot;release candidate&quot; 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.<p>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 &quot;common errors&quot; people are encountering [3].<p>Personally, I&#x27;m seeing responses from Kestrel when hitting ASP.NET 5 hosted pages under IIS, but they are zero-byte error 404 responses which don&#x27;t help much. It&#x27;s all great in Visual Studio but it&#x27;s a big zero when trying to actually use it for real. This is not a release candidate. At best it&#x27;s a 9th beta.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;aspnet&#x2F;IISIntegration&#x2F;issues&#x2F;14" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;aspnet&#x2F;IISIntegration&#x2F;issues&#x2F;14</a>
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