Microsoft's cloud hosting service, Azure, is really powerful. Visual Studio 2017 hooks directly into Azure, as does the .NET Core tooling. With that in mind, we're going to publish a WebApi application to Azure and watch it fly.
A little different this week. Zac (http://thereactionary.net), Paul (http://codeshare.co.uk), James (http://cynicaldeveloper.com) and myself took part in #Hack24 this year, our team was called AbstractSausageFactory(). Want to find out how we did? You'll have to click through and read this post, won't you?
Visual Studio 2107 was recently released. In this blog post I guide you through installing it on Windows, and ways to use it even if you don't run Windows (and don't like the idea of dual booting or using a local VM). We'll also build an extremely simple application together, because I'm nice like that.
Now that we've all got Visual Studio 2017 installed, those of us who are .NET Core developers will need to know how to convert our project.json solutions to the new csproj one. Luckily, I have you covered.
The final part in our multi-post tutorial on using WebApi with Entity Framework Core. This week we're doing a little refactoring to add our Join table, Shadow Properties and the ability to Seed the database from a series of json files.
A round up of some of the bigger news items in the .NET Core SDK and relating tooling space. Including a mention of a release date for .NET Core 2.0, changes to templating in the SDK and even Visual Studio 2017
The penultimate part in our multi-post tutorial on using WebApi with Entity Framework Core. This week we'll be adding our Character class and service, a Character controller, a little refactoring, and creating POCOs for our Book and Character models
The second part in our multi-post tutorial on using WebApi with Entity Framework Core. This week we'll be adding an initial database migration, adding some seed data, building a Book service, and returning book JSON data in our Book controller
The first part in our multi-post tutorial on using WebApi with Entity Framework Core. This week we'll go through the data model design, the directory structure we'll be using for out code, and what we actually hope to achieve with this project.
.NET Core supports many different types of project templates. This week, I thought I would go through the major project templates available in version 1.0 of the .NET Core SDK, giving a brief explanation of each.