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NET Core
Getting Started

Brandon Cornett 1
Who am I?
• Brandon Cornett
• Lead Software Dev
• Turner Industries
• C#
• DevOps

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What is .NET Core?
• Cross-Platform
• Unified
• Fast
• Lightweight
• Open Source

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.NET Core Overview
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NuGet All the Things
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What is missing?
• App Models
• Many APIs
• Unsupported Technologies

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What Models are Supported?
• Console
• ASP.NET Core
• UWP
• Xamarin.Forms (targeting UWP)

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Who supports it?
• Open Source
• https://github.com/dotnet/core

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What is it composed of?

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.NET Framework SDK Tools / dotnet host

Runtime Libraries Compilers

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#1
.NET Runtime

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#2
Framework Libraries

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Old Ecosystem
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Enter .NET Standard
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What is .NET Standard?
• Specification
• Platforms implement
• Additive and Immutable
• Details
• Higher version, more APIs
• Lower version, more platforms
• Complicated ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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What happened to PCLs?
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What is next?

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#3
SDK Tools / Compilers

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What Can I Do with the CLI?
• dotnet new
• dotnet restore
• dotnet build
• dotnet run
• dotnet publish
• dotnet pack

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#4
dotnet host

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How do I install it?
• https://www.microsoft.com/net/core

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What editors can I use?
• CLI
• Visual Studio
• VS Code
• Other Editors
• Roslyn w/ OmniSharp

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Demo

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Who should switch?
• Should
• General purpose libs
• Can’t
• WPF, WinForms (- UWP), WebForms
• Maybe
• ASP.NET
• Micro-services
• Console apps
• Rewrites

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Who has questions?
Brandon Cornett
bdev.io
brandon@bdev.io

@brandon_dev
linkedin.com/in/bcornett

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