Tooling

C# All The Things

.NET Core Global Tools. You don't need glasses to C#.

David Pine

8 minute read

I’m proud to share that this post is part of the C# Advent Calendar and it’s my second year contributing to it! I encourage you to check out all the others 

<a href="https://crosscuttingconcerns.com/The-Second-Annual-C-Advent" target='_blank'>here</a>

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Developers Are Lazy

In the world of web development it is hard to escape certain tools that we are forced to rely on. As developers we’re innately lazy and it is safe to say that perhaps we don’t really care enough to look into other tooling options. Let’s face it… you’re lazy, and I’m lazy and that is all there is to it. .NET Core offers 

<a href="https://aka.ms/global-tools" target='_blank'>global tooling</a>

, much like NPM you can use these tools for various build automation tasks. It’s worth exploring .NET Core Global Tooling to see how it might enable us to be even more lazy!

The power of the global.json

Leveraging .NET Core Tooling Features

David Pine

3 minute read

Introduction

As I’m sure you’re all aware by now, Monday June 27th was a special day for those of you who were anticipating the release of .NET Core and ASP.NET Core. While the “core” frameworks and runtimes are RTM, the tooling is actually still in preview. In fact, we’re currently on Tools Preview 2. I wanted to focus this post entirely on one specific enhancement to Visual Studio solutions, enter the global.json.