Microsoft is opening up towards more Open Source Software (OSS), with the availability of .NET Core on Windows, macOS and Linux. Having Microsoft as a premium partner in the Linux foundation, there are great opportunities to extend your programming skills and business solutions to other platforms than Windows. Using .NET Core on Linux is just the beginning of cross-platform development in C#. Explore now and be ready!

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Getting started with
.NET Core on Linux

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नमस्ते – I’m “JoKi”
Jochen Kirstätter
4x Microsoft MVP
Founder of an IT community in Mauritius
Get Blogged by JoKi – http://jochen.kirstaetter.name
Family guy, geek, entrepreneur, software craftsman:
Visual FoxPro, C#, SQL Server, MySQL/MariaDB,
Linux consultant, Conference speaker

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Brief Agenda
Quick overview of Linux
Installation .NET Core on Ubuntu 16.04
dotnet command line tool
Building an application
Developing .NET Core using Visual Studio Code
Accessing databases on Linux

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Quick overview of Linux
Personal project of student Linus Torvalds
“Just a hobby”
Usenet posting to “comp.os.minix”
Source code to FTP server
Free (as in speech & in beer)
The rest is history… ;-)

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Linux distributions
Ubuntu
RedHat Enterprise Linux
Debian
openSUSE
And many more…

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Installation .NET Core
Start your engines here: https://dot.net/core
Choose your distribution
Add the repository locally (incl. crypto key)
Install .NET Core SDK
Done!

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dotnet command line tool
Warning: Check the version number  different features!
dotnet --help
gives an overview of features available
dotnet new
dotnet restore
dotnet run

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Can we fix this? – Yes, we can!
“Talk is cheap, show me the code” – Linus Torvalds

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Developing .NET Core on Linux
Any text editor and the “dotnet” command line tool
Recommendation: Visual Studio Code
Free, light weight cross-platform editor
Extensible with plugins – C# and mssql extension
Debugging features
Built-in Git
Integrated terminal – easier access to “dotnet”

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Access to databases
System.Data offers various clients
Microsoft SQL Server – http://sqlserveronlinux.com
MySQL
MariaDB
Entity Framework Core
a lightweight, extensible, and cross-platform version of Entity Framework
Namespace: Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/ef/

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Not ready for Linux?
Windows 10 Anniversary Update or higher
Bash on Ubuntu on Windows
Check Windows Features
Enable Subsystem for Linux
Reboot
Run “bash”
Install dotnet here… ;-)

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