Following on from my first gotcha that we hit yesterday, here is another one which caught us out at the same time. TL:DR; When using dotnet run (.NET Core 2.0), expect it to set some properties (including the port and environment) from launchSettings.json if it’s included in the Properties folder! The issue we faced was […]
Author: Steve Gordon
Steve Gordon is a Pluralsight author, 7x Microsoft MVP, and a .NET engineer at Elastic where he maintains the .NET APM agent and related libraries. Steve is passionate about community and all things .NET related, having worked with ASP.NET for over 21 years.
Steve enjoys sharing his knowledge through his blog, in videos and by presenting talks at user groups and conferences. Steve is excited to participate in the active .NET community and founded .NET South East, a .NET Meetup group based in Brighton. He enjoys contributing to and maintaining OSS projects. You can find Steve on most social media platforms as @stevejgordon
ASP.NET Core Gotchas – No. 1 Why aren't my Environment Variables loaded into ASP.NET Core 2.0 configuration on Linux?
We’ve been using ASP.NET Core 1.0 for some time as part of a microservices architecture we’ve developed. We run the services in production as Docker containers on Amazon ECS. We recently created a new API based on ASP.NET Core 2.0 and ran into some issues with configuration. The first of the two issues we encountered […]
My Microsoft MVP Journey Becoming a Visual Studio and Developer Technologies MVP
On November 1st I got a very nice surprise in my inbox from Microsoft. I was being awarded an MVP in the ‘Visual Studio and Development Technologies’ category. This is an achievement that I am extremely proud of and very excited about. It’s an honour and honestly quite daunting to join such an amazing group […]
.NET South East November 2017 Meetup With guest Michael Newton
Last night we held our November .NET South East meetup at Madgex HQ with the amazing Michael Newton speaking. Here’s a brief summary… Intro and news At 7pm I opened the evening with my introduction, including thanking our fantastic sponsors. I then went on to discuss some of the news items I had gathered. I […]
.NET South East October 2017 Meetup With guest Rabeb Othmani
Last night we held our third .NET South East meetup at Madgex HQ with special guest Rabeb Othmani. Here’s a brief summary of the evening… Preparation Planning for this meeting felt a lot easier than past events as I have built a few lists of things to do and have a bit of experience with […]