• .Net Core,  Microsoft

    Dotnet Core Templates – The Revisit

    So a while back I penned an article (Dotnet new Magic), but now with the latest VS 2019 and Dotnet Core 3.x release… it’s time to revisit. In case we forgot – the command is: dotnet new -i “–The Template Reference Name Here–”  The list of templates can be found in the old place but also here – Dotnet New Templates What ones do I add: dotnet new –install “Microsoft.AspNetCore.SpaTemplates” dotnet new –install “Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.ProjectTemplates” dotnet new –install “Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.ItemTemplates” dotnet new –install “NUnit3.DotNetNew.Template” dotnet new –install “Microsoft.AspNetCore.Blazor.Templates”   **Some of these already exist, but this one adds the webassembly type. dotnet new –install “Microsoft.Azure.IoT.Edge.Module” dotnet new –install “Microsoft.Azure.IoT.Edge.Function” dotnet new –install “RaspberryPi.Template”…

  • .Net Core,  Article,  Microsoft

    Port Desk Top UI App

    Not really ready for prime time , but here’s an article stepping through the how-to and the workaround for the fact that Core has yet to add the visual designer for, ya you guessed the actual Windows Form- that seems to be a rather glaring miss if we are talking about porting and doing traditional windows UI forms development going forward. .NET Blog | How to port desktop applications to .NET Core 3.0 In this post, I will describe how to port a desktop application from .NET Framework to .NET Core. I picked a WinForms application as an example. Steps for WPF application are similar and I?ll describe what needs…

  • .Net Core,  Microsoft

    Play with dotnet tool and a BOT

    I was poking about with cleaning up my DotNet Core sdks and in my travels a found this thing call dotnet tools… Let the experiment begin… To credit the source of an article on Microsoft go here: dotnet tool  Do a console project with dotnet: dotnet new console -o botsay Then, of course, cd into the botsay directory… and edit the Program.cs (yeap you can do this in VS 2017) Here’s the main method: using System.Reflection; static void Main(string[] args) { if (args.Length == 0) { var versionString = Assembly.GetEntryAssembly() .GetCustomAttribute<AssemblyInformationalVersionAttribute>() .InformationalVersion .ToString(); Console.WriteLine($"botsay v{versionString}"); Console.WriteLine("-------------"); Console.WriteLine("\nUsage:"); Console.WriteLine(" botsay <message>"); return; } ShowBot(string.Join(' ', args)); } The ShowBot method is this:…

  • Blazor,  Microsoft

    Blazor and EF Core to Nowhere land.

    In the long decent into “Experimental” frameworks- this one being Blazor, I’ve been finding some challenges with getting Blazor to work with the latest EF Core. There’s a few examples of Blazor being used with EF Core (i.e. the CRUD example that’s floating around the inter-Tubes), but nothing that seems to work with the latest Blazor Lang template in the latest VS release. One can go to a lower EF Core version, well mostly… I’ve yet to get my Blazor Hosted Core test app to compile…. let alone the DB-Context to Scaffold… it just spews errors no matter which direction I go in… Oh Bother…. I have to remember that…