F#
Announcing EFCore.FSharp
Announcing the first alpha release of F# support for Entity Framework Core 5.0.3
.NET Core
F#
MiniScaffold, setting up a new F# project the easy way
Setting up a new project can be a pain. Especially if you want to split it into separate folders for clarity. You might want a src folder for the project itself, a test folder for the unit and integration tests, a docs folder for documentation. You are writing documentation for
.NET Core
Yet more "fun" with time zones in .NET
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a .NET project in possession of multiple time zones, must be in want of Noda Time. Sometimes though, we have an existing project where it's just not reasonable to move everything over and we need a way to display a DateTime
C#
The continued theft of ideas by C#
Back in the good old days, C# was .NET was Windows. Sure there were antique languages like VB.NET and ivory tower academia from F# but real developers used C# and the language was just fine as it was. Sure, some additions helped, generics were ok even if they did
.NET Core
PowerShell in .NET Core and Docker
Since the beginning of time .NET Core there has been one continuous annoyance about developing cross-platform solutions, including build scripts for windows and non-windows platforms. We have at least fallen into a standard pattern, most repositories will contain both a build.cmd and build.sh that will build the project
Docker
Developing in a docker container
Ah, a new open source project that looks interesting. Let's pull it down from GitHub, open it up in the IDE of our choice and.... Oh... It turns out the build scripts assume you have some build tool already installed or, even worse, a specific version of it.
.NET Core
Creating a single file application in .NET Core
Publishing a .NET Core application as a single executable file, and keeping it as small as possible
.NET Core
Configuring an ASP.NET Core MVC Application
Following on from my post on how to upgrade an ASP.NET 5 application to .NET Core, here's how to configure it. By default a .NET Core web application will listen on port 5000 and will run it as a production environment. We may want to run two
.NET Core
Upgrading from ASP.NET 5 RC1 to ASP.NET Core RC2
ASP.NET 5 is dead. Long live .NET Core! ASP.NET 5 has been through more than a name change. dnvm, dnu and dnx are gone, all replaced with a single dotnet command. There are a number of new ideas, one of the most immediate being that all .NET Core
.NET Core
Live coding using ASP.NET 5 and DNX
Coding in ASP.NET 5 just became a lot quicker. A change in a view will be reflected as soon as you hit F5, now you can have the same magic with controllers or any other compiled code in your project as soon as you save your changes. Once you
.NET Core
Hosting an ASP.NET vNext application from NGINX
Note This entry has been updated and republished to account for the breaking changes which have taken place in the vNext (now DNVM) project and major updates to the post content regarding nginx configuration ASP.NET vNext includes its own web server, Kestrel, which can be invoked by running dnx
.NET Core
Install ASP.NET vNext on a DigitalOcean Ubuntu droplet
Note This entry has been updated and republished to account for the breaking changes which have taken place in the vNext (now DNVM) project .NET has gone open source! It''s now possible to build and run .NET applications on OSX and Linux. To install and run ASP