Necromancing. Providing an actual answer. What is the difference between .Net Core and Mono? .NET Core now officially is the future of .NET. It started for most part with a re-write of the ASP.NET MVC framework and console applications, which of course includes server applications. (Since it’s Turing-complete and supports interop with C dlls, you … Read more
As you’ve already noticed, you can control most of these settings in .csproj. If you’d rather keep these in AssemblyInfo.cs, you can turn off auto-generated assembly attributes. <PropertyGroup> <GenerateAssemblyInfo>false</GenerateAssemblyInfo> </PropertyGroup> If you want to see what’s going on under the hood, checkout Microsoft.NET.GenerateAssemblyInfo.targets inside of Microsoft.NET.Sdk.
From the .NET blog Announcing .NET 2015 Preview: A New Era for .NET: .NET Core has two major components. It includes a small runtime that is built from the same codebase as the .NET Framework CLR. The .NET Core runtime includes the same GC and JIT (RyuJIT), but doesn’t include features like Application Domains or … Read more
Use: CLI > dotnet ef database update <previous-migration-name> Package Manager Console PM> Update-Database <previous-migration-name> Example: PM> Update-Database MyInitialMigration Then try to remove last migration. Removing migration without database update doesn’t work because you applied changes to database. If using PMC, Try: PM> update-database 0 This will wipe the database and allow you to remove the … Read more
This has had a few twists and turns. I’ve modified this answer to be up to date with ASP.NET Core 2.0 (as of 26/02/2018). This is mostly taken from the official documentation: To work with settings in your ASP.NET application, it is recommended that you only instantiate a Configuration in your application’s Startup class. Then, … Read more
Great question, and the answer is not a simple one. There is no “show me all .net core versions” command, but there’s hope. EDIT: I’m not sure when it was added, but the info command now includes this information in its output. It will print out the installed runtimes and SDKs, as well as some … Read more
See the announcement for ASP.NET Core 3 Preview 4, which explains that this tool is no longer built-in and requires an explicit install: The dotnet ef tool is no longer part of the .NET Core SDK This change allows us to ship dotnet ef as a regular .NET CLI tool that can be installed as … Read more
You should use .NET Core, instead of .NET Framework or Xamarin, in the following 6 typical scenarios according to the documentation here. 1. Cross-Platform needs Clearly, if your goal is to have an application (web/service) that should be able to run across platforms (Windows, Linux and MacOS), the best choice in the .NET ecosystem is … Read more
For debugging purposes, you can use the DLL file. You can run it using dotnet ConsoleApp2.dll. If you want to generate an EXE file, you have to generate a self-contained application. To generate a self-contained application (EXE in Windows), you must specify the target runtime (which is specific to the operating system you target). Pre-.NET … Read more
To fix this error from Tools > NuGet Package Manager > Package Manager Console simply run: dotnet restore The error occurs because the dotnet cli does not create the all of the required files initially. Doing dotnet restore adds the required files.