.NET Core

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Quick Links

• docs

Use cases

Console project

By default .NET Core Console applications reference very few elements.

These are good references to start with:

• Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection

• Microsoft.Extensions.Logging

  • Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Console

  • Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Debug

• Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration

  • Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.Json

Json serialization

• JavaScriptSerializer Class
• Json.NET

You can convert a Json to Xml:

// object is needed as the value is an array
var expected = JsonConvert.DeserializeXmlNode($"{{\"object\": {step.ExpectedResponseJsonString}}}", "root");

Features

• Configuration
• Learning about .NET Core futures by poking around at David Fowler's GitHub
• Memory: poster from Pro .NET Memory

Versions

You can find all the release notes on GitHub.

Tutorials

Start with .NET Tutorial - Hello World in 10 minutes then Learn .NET Core and the .NET Core SDK tools by exploring these Tutorials.

Recipes

Scripting

• Scott Hanselman - C# and .NET Core scripting with the "dotnet-script" global tool

Docker

.NET Core runs really well on Docker.

dotnet/dotnet-docker is the GitHub repository for .NET Core Docker official images, which are now hosted on Microsoft Container Registry (MCR). To know more read this arcticle .NET Core Container Images now Published to Microsoft Container Registry published on March 15, 2019.

Julien Chable has an interesting blog to follow with articles on .NET Core and Docker.

Official images repository:

• ASP.NET Core Runtime
• .NET Core Samples
• .NET Core

To review:

• Getting Started with .NET Core and Docker and the Microsoft Container Registry 2019-03-22
• Dockerize an ASP.NET Core application
• Scott Hanselman - .NET Core and Docker
• A complete containerized .NET Core Application microservice that is as small as possible

.NET Core on Kubernetes

• Deploy ASP.NET Core app to Kubernetes on Google Kubernetes Engine
• Deploy ASP.NET Core apps to Azure Kubernetes Service with Azure DevOps Projects
• Access the Kubernetes web dashboard in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Background tasks

• Implement background tasks in microservices with IHostedService and the BackgroundService class 2019-01-07

Excel

• Converting an Excel Worksheet into a JSON document with C# and .NET Core and ExcelDataReader

HTTP Client with NTLM authentication

{{< highlight csharp >}} // Startup.cs public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services) { services.AddHttpClient(apiClientConfiguration.HttpClientName) .ConfigurePrimaryHttpMessageHandler( x => new HttpClientHandler { Credentials = new CredentialCache { { new Uri(apiClientConfiguration.EndpointDomain), "NTLM", new NetworkCredential(_configuration.CustomApiClientUsername, _configuration.CustomApiClientPassword) } } }); } {{< /highlight >}}

CMS

• OrchardCMS
• nopCommerce

  • Scott Hanselman - Exploring nopCommerce - open source e-commerce shopping cart platform in .NET Core
• Scott Hanselman - Headless CMS and Decoupled CMS in .NET Core

.NET Core & PHP

• Scott Hanselman - The whole of WordPress compiled to .NET Core and a NuGet Package with PeachPie

Angular & ASP.NET Core

• Use the Angular project template with ASP.NET Core

.NET Core on AWS

• aws-samples/cloudmosaic-dotnet

.NET Core & Istio

• "Deploy and Run a Distributed Cloud Native system using Istio, Kubernetes & .NET core" source code