Andrew Lock | .NET Escapades

Andrew Lock
.NET Core

  1. Creating and editing solution files with the .NET CLI

    With the release of Visual Studio 2017 and the RTM .NET Core tooling, the .NET command line has gone through a transformation. The project.json format is no more, and instead we have returned back to .csproj files. It's not your grand-daddy's .csproj however - the new .csproj is far…
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  2. What is the NETStandard.Library metapackage?

    In my last post, I took a quick look at the Microsoft.AspNetCore meta package. One of the libraries referenced by the package, is the NETStandard.Library NuGet package. In this post I take a quick look at this package and what it contains. If you're reading this post, you…
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  3. Supporting both LTS and Current releases for ASP.NET Core

    Some time ago, I wrote a post on how to use custom middleware to set various security headers in an ASP.NET Core application. This formed the basis for a small package on GitHub and NuGet that does just that, it adds standard headers to your responses like X-Frame-Options and…
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  4. Understanding and updating package versions for .NET Core 1.0.3

    Microsoft introduced the second update to their Long Term Support (LTS) version of .NET Core on 13th December, 3 months after releasing the first update to the platform. This included updates to .NET Core, ASP.NET Core and Entity Framework Core, and takes the overall version number to 1.0.…
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  5. Troubleshooting ASP.NET Core 1.1.0 install problems

    I was planning on playing with the latest .NET Core 1.1.0 preview recently, but I ran into a few issues getting it working on my Mac. As I suspected, this was entirely down to my mistakes and my machine's setup, but I'm documenting it here in case any…
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  6. Using dependency injection in a .Net Core console application

    One of the key features of ASP.NET Core is baked in dependency injection. There may be various disagreements on the way that is implemented, but in general encouraging a good practice by default seems like a win to me. Whether you choose to use the built in container or…
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