Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc by: Microsoft

This package contains the runtime assemblies for ASP.NET MVC. ASP.NET MVC gives you a powerful, patterns-based way to build dynamic websites that enables a clean separation of concerns and that gives you full control over markup.

Microsoft.AspNet.Razor by: Microsoft

This package contains the runtime assemblies for ASP.NET Web Pages. ASP.NET Web Pages and the new Razor syntax provide a fast, terse, clean and lightweight way to combine server code with HTML to create dynamic web content.

Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi by: Microsoft

This package contains everything you need to host ASP.NET Web API on IIS. ASP.NET Web API is a framework that makes it easy to build HTTP services that reach a broad range of clients, including browsers and mobile devices. ASP.NET Web API is an ideal platform for building RESTful applications on the .NET Framework.

Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Client by: Microsoft

This package adds support for formatting and content negotiation to System.Net.Http. It includes support for JSON, XML, and form URL encoded data.

Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Core by: Microsoft

This package contains the core runtime assemblies for ASP.NET Web API. This package is used by hosts of the ASP.NET Web API runtime. To host a Web API in IIS use the Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.WebHost package. To host a Web API in your own process use the Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.SelfHost package.

Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.WebHost by: Microsoft

This package contains everything you need to host ASP.NET Web API on IIS. ASP.NET Web API is a framework that makes it easy to build HTTP services that reach a broad range of clients, including browsers and mobile devices. ASP.NET Web API is an ideal platform for building RESTful applications on the .NET Framework.

Microsoft.AspNet.WebPages by: Microsoft

This package contains core runtime assemblies shared between ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Web Pages.

Microsoft.Bcl.Async by: Microsoft

This package enables Visual Studio 2012 projects to use the new 'async' and 'await' keywords. This package also includes Task-based extension methods that allow using some of the existing asynchronous APIs with the new language keywords. Windows Phone Silverlight 8 projects can use this package to get access to async extension methods for the networking types. This package is not supported in Visual Studio 2010, and is only required for projects targeting .NET Framework 4.5, Windows 8, Windows Phone Silverlight 8, or Windows Phone 8.1 when consuming a library that uses this package. For known issues, please see: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bclteam/p/asynctargetingpackkb.aspx. For more information on the async programming model, visit MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/hh191443.aspx. Supported Platforms: - .NET Framework 4 (with KB2468871) - Windows 8 - Windows Phone 8.1 - Windows Phone Silverlight 7.5 - Silverlight 4 - Portable Class Libraries

Microsoft.Bcl.Build by: Microsoft

This package provides build infrastructure components so that projects referencing specific Microsoft packages can successfully build. Do not directly reference this packages unless you receive a build warning that instructs you to add a reference.

Microsoft.Bcl.Compression by: Microsoft

This package allows projects targeting Windows Phone Silverlight 8 directly or using portable class libraries to use the same ZipArchive, GZipStream and DeflateStream classes that are already available to projects targeting .NET Framework 4.5, Windows 8, and Windows Phone 8.1. For more information on how to use these APIs, see the MSDN documentation: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.compression.aspx Supported Platforms: - .NET Framework 4.5 - Windows 8 - Windows Phone 8.1 - Windows Phone Silverlight 8 - Portable Class Libraries This package is only required for projects targeting .NET Framework 4.5, Windows 8, or Windows Phone 8.1 when consuming a library that uses this package.

Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration by: Microsoft

Implementation of key-value pair based configuration for Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration. Includes the memory configuration provider.

Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.Binder by: Microsoft

Functionality to bind an object to data in configuration providers for Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.

Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.CommandLine by: Microsoft

Command line configuration provider implementation for Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.

Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.EnvironmentVariables by: Microsoft

Environment variables configuration provider implementation for Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.

Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.FileExtensions by: Microsoft

Extension methods for configuring file-based configuration providers for Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.

Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.Json by: Microsoft

JSON configuration provider implementation for Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.

Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.UserSecrets by: Microsoft

User secrets configuration provider implementation for Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.

Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection by: Microsoft

Default implementation of dependency injection for Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.

Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.Abstractions by: Microsoft

Abstractions for dependency injection. Commonly used types: Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection.IServiceCollection

Microsoft.Extensions.FileProviders.Physical by: Microsoft

File provider for physical files for Microsoft.Extensions.FileProviders.