UPDATE: 24-May-2018 – It looks like LibMan didn’t make it into the final release of 15.7. It’s in the preview for 15.8.x currently so we may see it when that version lands. I recently started working on an ASP.NET Core 2.1 Preview 2 sample project. Having been mostly API focused recently, it was the first […]
Category: Visual Studio 2017
Migrating from project.json to csproj using Visual Studio 2017 Moving a real world ASP.NET Core application using VS2015 project.json to VS2017 and csproj
This past weekend I spent a few hours working on migrating the Humanitarian Toolbox allReady project over to the new csproj based Visual Studio 2017 solution format. I’ve written a few times about the plans to retire the project.json file introduced by ASP.NET Core. If you want some background you can read those posts first (don’t worry, […]
Visual Studio 2017 is Released Reflecting on the loss of project.json and looking ahead to the new VS 2017 experience
Visual Studio 2017 is released today and I thought it was a good time to reflect on my thoughts about one of the main changes it brings for ASP.NET Core developers. This won’t be a detailed features post, as I’ve only tried the RC a few limited times. Due to some bugs and issues I […]
R.I.P project.json – Out with the new, in with the old An early look at the VS 2017 csproj changes
Okay; the title of the post is a bit tongue in cheek! Since it was first announced that the new project.json format (developed by the ASP.NET Core team) was going to be retired in favour of the more traditional csproj file, the .NET community have had some very strong opinions. These have been shared on […]