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2. Converting web.config files to appsettings.json with a .NET Core global tool

   In this post I describe how I created a .NET Core global tool to easily convert configuration stored in web.config files to JSON files for ASP.NET Core.…

   July 16, 2018 in .NET Core ASP.NET Core .NET CLI Configuration
3. Creating a .NET Core global CLI tool for squashing images with the TinyPNG API

   In this post I describe a .NET Core CLI global tool I created that can be used to compress images using the TinyPNG developer API…

   April 03, 2018 in .NET Core ASP.NET Core 2.1 .NET CLI
4. Including linked files from outside the project directory in ASP.NET Core

   This post is just a quick tip that I found myself using recently- including files in a project that are outside the project directory. I suspect this…

   January 30, 2018 in ASP.NET Core .NET Core Visual Studio .NET CLI
5. Running tests with dotnet xunit using Cake

   In this post I show how you can run tests using the xUnit .NET CLI Tool "dotnet xunit" when building projects using Cake, by using the DotNetCoreTool alias.…

   October 17, 2017 in Testing .NET Core .NET CLI DevOps
6. The .NET Core 2.0 Preview 1, version numbers and global.json

   This post looks at installing .NET Core 2.0.0 Preview 1, compares the NET Core runtime version to the .NET SDK runtime, and how to use global.json to pin an…

   May 13, 2017 in ASP.NET Core .NET CLI .NET Core 2.0 Preview 1 Installation
7. Creating a basic Web API template using dotnet new custom templates

   This post introduces the basicwebapi template, a .NET CLI template based on the Web API template with Razor removed that I described in my previous post.…

   April 20, 2017 in .NET CLI ASP.NET Core NuGet