While I’ve been hapily blogging away on Ghost version 0.8.0 hosted on azure (very much ad-hoc hosting approach) the Ghost Blog team made the leap to a 1.* version, with a very breaking changes along the way, especially to their upgrade process. They’ve made it all the way to 1.8.4 and so I figured it was …

I have been struggling to get dotnet build to work on nanoserver via docker. I had already given up on git, because I can perform git tasks outside the container first. Basically I was trying this: docker run -v "$(pwd):C:/work" -w C:/work -it --rm microsoft/dotnet:1.1.1-sdk-nanoserver powershell build.ps1 This …

Since Visual Studio 2017 is out, and we have a 1.0.0 tools release for .Net Core, I’m going to try and migrate a simple project from the pre-release tooling, onto the new tooling. The biggest difference is that instead of using a project.json file, the new tooling now uses a .csproj file instead. It will take a …

While we are all wanting to get onto the new hotness that is .Net Core cross platform applications, the reality is that our servers are running windows, and we use a combination of Scheduled tasks, IIS, and Windows Services to host our applications. Most .Net Core applications are console apps that work well for …

This is a series on the .Net Core 1.0 bits. Looking for .Net Core 2 Series? Getting Started What’s in the box Using Multiple Projects Testing NuGet Multi-targeting Publishing Portable Applications <=(We are here) Self-contained Applications We can now take everything we have learned and start publishing our …

Constructors for services are a really handy way to pass in configuration, variation and dependencies. Here are some ways I have learned to use Constructors and some ideas on testing. What shouldn’t be in a Constructor Execution. Any complex execution of code should not be in a constructor. This includes …

I’ve been using Fira Code as my new dev font. And I’m sticking with it. FiraCode is available on GitHub, and is a based on the concept of ligatures, targeting at programming symbols. In short, ligatures are where two or more actual characters are printed as a single printable character, originating in print …

The docker guidance says you can run docker build piping the dockerfile: #On linux $ docker build - < Dockerfile and on Windows it says to do this: #PowerShell Get-Content Dockerfile | docker build - Nice. But I’ve been getting this error all day… > Get-Content Dockerfile | docker build - unable to …

I’ve been using VS Code. Great tool. But it means my tests are running through a command line runner. Essentially I use dotnet test, which is nice since I am targeting multiple platforms (.Net 4.5, 4.5.2, 4.6 & netcoreapp1.0). But when I open my test project in Visual Studio, I have 0 tests. Thats zero, none, …

The new .Net Core CLI has the ability to use xunit or nunit. Which is great. For running tests locally. I use TeamCity, so I like to see test results showing up, track testing count over time etc. There is a built in way to import xml reports which supports junit (which is xunit-compatible) and nunit. But choosing …

I’ve been working on some new projects, so thought I would do a quick elevator pitch for each. Consolable I was having an issue with environment variables as arguments, and with PowerShell replacing "text" with text (stripping double-quotes) and how these interacted with my command line arguments. …

This is a series on the .Net Core 1.0 bits. Looking for .Net Core 2 Series? Getting Started What’s in the box Using Multiple Projects Testing NuGet Multi-targeting <=(We are here) Publishing Portable Applications Self-contained Applications Last time we learned how to package our libraries as NuGet packages. …

This is a series on the .Net Core 1.0 bits. Looking for .Net Core 2 Series? Getting Started What’s in the box Using Multiple Projects Testing NuGet <=(We are here) Multi-targeting Publishing Portable Applications Self-contained Applications Let’s set aside Application packing for later, and focus our …

This is a series on the .Net Core 1.0 bits. Looking for .Net Core 2 Series? Getting Started What’s in the box Using Multiple Projects Testing <=(We are here) NuGet Multi-targeting Publishing Portable Applications Self-contained Applications We want to be able to test our application code that we build. …

While working on my .Net Core Series I noticed that Visual Studio was adding a global.json file to the root of my project, and liked to put src and test in there. I thought I would investigate what it actually does. I noticed that if all my project folders were next to each other it didn’t matter. So here is my …

This is a series on the .Net Core 1.0 bits. Looking for .Net Core 2 Series? Getting Started What’s in the box Using Multiple Projects <=(We are here) Testing NuGet Multi-targeting Publishing Portable Applications Self-contained Applications We know how to create new projects, we know how to build and run our …

This is a series on the .Net Core 1.0 bits. Looking for .Net Core 2 Series? Getting Started What’s in the box <=(We are here) Using Multiple Projects Testing NuGet Multi-targeting Publishing Portable Applications Self-contained Applications Last time we created a new application. Once with dotnet CLI and once …

Getting Started with Visual Studio Code? Me too. Let’s see what it takes to get going. This is a bit of a companion piece alongside my .Net Core Series I am writing at the moment. Hopefully as well as .Net Core, I will have a play with writing TypeScript, Rust and maybe C++ inside Visual Studio Code. I might have …

This is a series on the .Net Core 1.0 bits. Looking for .Net Core 2 Series? Getting Started <=(We are here) What’s in the box Using Multiple Projects Testing NuGet Multi-targeting Publishing Portable Applications Self-contained Applications We finally got some finalised bits in a release this week. So here is …

This article is based on an answer found and updated on StackOverflow. I’f you have used PowerShell for much at all, you are probably familiar with Invoke-WebRequest. But did you know you can carry around a session and have it automatically add and update cookies for you? The Scenario I had an API I wanted to …