Microsoft also recently released Oxite, an ASP.NET MVC-based CMS, under the MS-PL open source license. Oxite provides developers with a compelling real-world example of how to use the new framework.

ASP.NET MVC joins other Microsoft-spawned open source projects, including the Managed Extensibility Framework, Dynamic Language Runtime, IronRuby, the AJAX Control Toolkit and the Silverlight Toolkit.

ASP.NET Core 5 MVC provides support for request and response headers, which are collections of key-value pairs that are passed between the server and the client together with a request or response.

Take advantage of security headers in ASP.NET Core MVC 5 to protect your website against cross-site scripting, code injection, clickjacking, and other attacks.