Brushing Up on Dotnet

đź”— | by Chris McLeod

Yesterday I tried to follow some dotnet[1] tutorials that also show some Azure concepts. These were all tutorials and documentation on the Microsoft website itself. For context, I was using my desktop PC, which runs Linux[2].

The initial setup worked great. I installed Core, the Azure CLI, and various useful extensions for VS Code. Then I created a new Web API project from a template, which ran on my PC without issue. Finally, I used the Azure CLI to setup an App Service I could deploy to from Git. So far, so good.

Things went downhill when it came to putting everything together and tried to deploy to Azure. My code would be committed, I could see the deployment churning away for a couple of seconds, and then it would crash out with a build error; my project was targeting dotnet Core 3+, but Azure apparently only supported targeting up to Core 2.2.

I tried a couple of things to try fix it, but I haven’t been successful yet. I’ll start over from scratch again when I get back to it. But it does make me wonder how well someone with even less experience in this stuff than me would get on.

  1. I’m going to keep using this instead of the “.NET” branding I never really liked ↩︎

  2. Can I just remark on how cool this is. The last time I was using dotnet it was still Windows only. ↩︎