I wrote a while back on getting your Windows Services building with .Net Core which is a nice way to use the new SDK pipeline but still host on Windows without much fuss. But what If you like the approach but want to run on Linux? Well after some stumbling…
I originally set out to write about Polly. Then I started reading their documentation. I quickly realised that I couldn't write anything as detailed and accurate as they already had available. So instead, I'm going to give more of a super high level, with links to relevant reading. You can…
I've started getting into building Docker Containers as deployment packages. These are some learnings that I want to share, hopefully helping countless others with a better build, test and debug cycle with .Net on Docker with Visual Studio. Start with the defaults Use the built-in tools in Visual Studio to…
I want to talk about this point made about Keeping a Clean Startup.cs in Asp.Net Core by K. Scott Alan. Mostly I want to agree and elaborate on it. (Warning! I used the British English customised below. If this doesn't match your sensibilities, just use customize instead.) The…
I wrote Building a Windows Service with .Net Core and had a bit of flack because I was only using .Net core to build a .Net 4.5.2 application. Technically the title is still valid, it was a windows service, and I built it using .Net Core tools. But…
This is a series on the latest 2.* .Net Core bits, Following on from the original .Net Core Series Getting Started What's in the box Using Multiple Projects Testing NuGet Multi-targeting Publishing Portable Applications Self-contained Applications <=(We are here) (At the time of writing, 2.1.4. I use…
This is a series on the latest 2.* .Net Core bits, Following on from the original .Net Core Series Getting Started What's in the box Using Multiple Projects Testing NuGet Multi-targeting Publishing Portable Applications <=(We are here) Self-contained Applications (At the time of writing, 2.1.4. I use…
This is a series on the latest 2.* .Net Core bits, Following on from the original .Net Core Series Getting Started What's in the box Using Multiple Projects Testing NuGet Multi-targeting <=(We are here) Publishing Portable Applications Self-contained Applications (At the time of writing, 2.1.4. I use…