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 […]
Category: ASP.NET Core
Debugging ASP.NET Core 2.0 Source Code Using ASP.NET Core symbols with Source Link support
In the early days of ASP.NET Core 1.0, before Visual Studio 2017, back when we had the project.json project format, we were able to take advantage of a nice feature to enable source debugging of referenced libraries and code. We could add the paths of cloned source repositories into our global.json file and these would […]
Upgrading to ASP.NET Core 2.0 My experience of upgrading a real-world solution from ASP.NET Core 1.0 to 2.0
On the 14th of August, Microsoft announced the release of .NET Core 2.0, ASP.NET Core 2.0 and EF Core 2.0, the next major releases of their open source, cross platform frameworks and libraries. This is a very exciting release and one which I hope marks the stabilisation of the framework and enables more developers and […]
Implementing IHostedService in ASP.NET Core 2.0 Use IHostedService to run background tasks in ASP.NET Core apps
NOTE: This content is now quite out of date. The implementation described below is now available in .NET Core by deriving from the BackgroundService class. I cover this topic in detail in my new course on Pluralsight – “Building ASP.NET Core Hosted Services and .NET Core Worker Services“. Update 30-08-2017: ASP.NET Core 2.0.0 is now […]
Docker for .NET Developers (Part 6) Using Docker for Build and Continuous Deployment
In part 3 I discussed one of the first motivations which led our team to begin using Docker. That motivation was focused on making the workflow for our front end developers quicker and simpler. In this post I want to explore a second motivation which led to us fully embrace Docker on our project. Just […]