.NET

Despite spending plenty of time in Red Hat Linux while I was young, I have become an unabashed Windows environment super-user/programmer. Still, it’s hard to discount the multitude of ways that the *nix community stands ahead and alone, so when Microsoft and Red Hat announced their partnership to bring .NET to Linux, I had no choice but to take notice. As an experiment, I am going to go through setting up Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and .NET Core to...

The ASPNET Music Store application was built to demonstrate MVC and Entity Framework running on the newest .NET platform, including .NET Core. If you visit the link, you'll see that various platforms are mentioned, including Mono. However, you'll also notice that the instructions are dated: references to dnx and dnu are throughout the README file. This blog post will show how to bring MusicStore up-to-date and run it on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). (If you don't have RHEL, you...

Red Hat is committed to making .NET a First Class citizen on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). To that end, we're working furiously to make sure everything's perfect before we make .NET available by simply running: yum install rh-dotnetcore10 In the meantime, I can't wait. No, literally, I can't wait --- you don't need to either. You can hop over to Microsoft's .NET download site and get .NET for RHEL. (What? You didn't get your zero-dollar developer copy of RHEL...

As .NET Core matures into a production-ready software product, more and more information is becoming available regarding what to expect. While the changes haven't been too big to understand, there are breaking changes and they do require that developers get some education before forging ahead. That applies to Entity Framework Core 1.0 (EF Core) as much as any other component of what is broadly termed ".NET Core". Granted, EF Core is not a part of .NET Core -- and neither...

If you are a Windows developer and you want to start writing .NET code in Linux, and you're not sure where to start, this article should help you understand some of the choices regarding your development environment. I’ll be using the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Developer Suite (RHEL) as my Linux of choice, which is freely downloadable for development use. It's also worth mentioning that how you actually install RHEL will affect your development experience. The up-front work to get...

With the advent of .NET Core 1.0, things have changed. Dramatically. For starters, it's open source. This means anyone, including you and I, can submit bug fixes and enhancements to the .NET framework. It will now run on Mac and Linux. You can compile code natively to the platform of your choice. And beyond that, it's much more modular. There's the Common Language Runtime (CLR), the CoreFX (where the "System." libraries live), the Command Line Interface (CLI), and other modules...

I'm a .NET developer at heart, and I want to write C# code that runs natively in Linux - Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), to be specific. So, I hopped over to the Red Hat .NET Developers web site, installed the CDK and was up and running in short order. I had a no-cost developer's copy of RHEL running on my PC and was writing .NET code. Life was good. I had my instance of RHEL inside a Vagrant Box...

Much has changed in the IT world in the last few years, first Microsoft Loves Linux and now Red Hat Loves .NET. I suspect for many of you it is a bit bewildering, however, there are huge wins here for software developers. C# is rapidly becoming the programming language with the greatest number of target platforms, including: iOS, Android, OSX, and now through the partnership with Red Hat (home of the worlds' most popular enterprise Linux platform) C# is becoming...

Back in November we announced that we would be partnering with Microsoft to make a supported version of .NET available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Since then we’ve been working together to make sure that .NET runs great on RHEL and has the capabilities that enterprise developers require. Today, at Microsoft Build, we were invited to join Scott Hanselmann on stage where we demonstrated some of that work and showed how the partnership is helping to create a more stable...

The .NET framework is a relatively young technology when compared to the rest of computer science history, but as it turns fourteen this year, we can look back and see a long-standing record of innovation, developer productivity, and more recently a refreshing open-source mentality from Microsoft that has resulted in the first ever release of (the official) .NET framework in a Linux distribution. .NET is a development platform that includes several programming languages, notably C# and Visual Basic, and the...

We are heading to Moscone in San Francisco. Yes, for DevNation in June, but we are there for Microsoft Build 2016 this week. We’ve got many exciting things planned - some below and some you will need to wait and see - but as a first time sponsor of Build we are looking forward to welcoming the .NET audience to Red Hat Developers. All the details are here but here are some of the highlights: Red Hat Developers team will...

Another December and another list of must-read blog articles for the year. These were the most read and averaged 16,000 views per article - so lots of interest! Scala vs. Node.js as a RESTful backend server (31000 views) Improving math performance in glibc Red Hat and Microsoft making .NET on Linux work for Enterprises Five different ways to handle leap seconds with NTP JIT-compilation using GCC 5 GCC5 and the C++11 ABI GCC 5 in Fedora Live Migrating QEMU-KVM Virtual...

Today is a pretty exciting day if you’re an enterprise developer. . . Red Hat and Microsoft have announced that the two companies will be working together to bring a supported version of the .NET runtime to Red Hat’s Enterprise Linux and OpenShift 3. This offers developers more freedom and choice in how they develop their applications. Having spent a big part of my career at Microsoft and working with .NET since its inception, I’ve grown to love the strengths...

There was a time, not so long ago, when enterprise software development was pretty straight forward. For most, there were few choices – Java or .Net, Linux or Windows, a handful of databases and IT ran everything. Today, it’s anything but straight forward. There are dozens of languages, dozens of ways to host and deliver your applications, different client technologies, some proprietary and some not… there are a lot of decisions to make. When there were limited choices, developers usually...