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 […]
Category: ASP.NET Core
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 […]
.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 […]
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 […]