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 […]

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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NOTE: This content is now quite out of date.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 […]

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