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Roundup #58: Orleans 3.0, Snitch, What’s Your Problem? Next 5 years of ASP.NET Core

Here are the things that caught my eye recently in .NET.  I’d love to hear what you found most interesting this week.  Let me know in the comments or on Twitter. Introducing Orleans 3.0 We are excited to announce the Orleans 3.0 release. A great number of improvements and fixes went in, as well as several new features, since Orleans 2.0. These changes were driven by the experience of many people running Orleans-based applications in production in a wide range of scenarios and environments, and by the ingenuity and passion of the global Orleans community that always strives to make… Read More »Roundup #58: Orleans 3.0, Snitch, What’s Your Problem? Next 5 years of ASP.NET Core

Co-Hosting Orleans and ASP.NET Core

With the release of Orleans 3.0 comes the ability to co-host with ASP.NET Core (or any other framework that uses the generic host builder). What this means is you can run Orleans and ASP.NET Core in the same process. The advantage to this is both services will share the same service provider, logging, etc that is configured with the host builder. Orleans and ASP.NET Core The extension method UseOrleans() is available now on the IHostBuilder. Just like you would configure the ASP.NET Core via ConfigureWebHostDefaults, you can configure the Orleans silo. Benefits One of the nice benefits here is that… Read More »Co-Hosting Orleans and ASP.NET Core

Building .NET Core 3 under a Linux TeamCity Agent

I recently needed to (re)build a new TeamCity agent under Linux to build a .NET Core project. There wasn’t anything overly complicated but I figured I’d post everything I had to do in one spot since you have to dig around various/documentation to get it all working. Hopefully, this helps anyone (including myself) in the future that needs to build a Linux TeamCity Agent for building a .NET Core app. I’m using an EC2 instance in AWS using the Ubuntu 18.04 image. This is important because all the following steps are based around that and there are differences if you… Read More »Building .NET Core 3 under a Linux TeamCity Agent