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Derek Comartin

Migrating to .NET Core: Mission Complete

It’s been over 5 years since I started a greenfield project that initially was developed using Katana/Owin with ASP.NET Web API. Over the past 3 years, since .NET Core 2.0 was released and .NET Standard 2.0 was defined, I’ve been slowly chipping away at migrating to .NET Core. It’s been a long road but we’re now fully migrated and running in production with ASP.NET Core on .NET Core 3.1. Migrating from .NET Framework to .NET Core This blog post is in a series about migrating from .NET Framework to .NET Core. Migrating from .NET Framework to .NET Core Overview Migrating… Read More »Migrating to .NET Core: Mission Complete

Getting Started: Apache Kafka with .NET Core

If you’re interested in playing around with Apache Kafka with .NET Core, this post contains everything you need to get started. I’ve been interested in Kafka for awhile and finally sat down and got everything configured using Docker, then created a .NET console app that contained a Producer and a Consumer. Here’s my complete process of what that involved. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel where I created a video that accompanies this blog post. Docker The first thing you need is to pull down the latest Docker images of both Zookeeper and Kafka. Before we create any contains, first create a… Read More »Getting Started: Apache Kafka with .NET Core

NuGet PackageReference Versions SOLUTION Wide

If you have a solution with many projects, it can be a challenge to make sure each NuGet Package has the version across all of your projects. Each PackageReference across all csproj files must specify the same version of the NuGet Package. Here are a couple of ways for managing NuGet PackageRerence Versions across your entire solution. YouTube Check out my YouTube channel where I created a video that accompanies this blog post. PackageReference First, in order for this to work, you must be using the new SDK style csproj files. This is where your NuGet packages are referenced via the <PackageReference>… Read More »NuGet PackageReference Versions SOLUTION Wide