Tag: .net

Retrieve an Atom feed in .NET Core

After yesterday’s adventure and recent forehead-smacking, this seemed like an appropriate, and small, goal.

After some Googling I found RestSharp, which bills itself as a Simple REST and HTTP API Client for .NET. Sounds good.

I tried to work out how to add this to my project.json but couldn’t find any documentation on what it should like, even after I remembered about things like NuGet.

So I guessed and typed dnu install restsharp, which seemed to fetch the right files. My package.json didn’t seem to have updated though, so I then did a dnu restore. This updated the package file, but might have been overkill and a timing issue in my editor.

I now have a small file which will retrieve an Atom file and dump it to screen.

Another small step tomorrow.

Getting started with .NET Core

It’s been a few years since I last used .net so I thought I’d give it a go. It was slightly more eventful 30 minutes than I’d have liked, so I thought I’d write it up.

I started by trying to install Visual Studio, but half an hour later it was still under 50% done, and since I only wanted to be writing scripts rather than applications, I started looking for some smaller getting started guides and came across Microsoft’s guide to getting started with .NET Core. So I took a brief look at the new shape of the .NET stack, liked what I saw, and went back to the guide.

After installing the .NET Version Manager (dnvm) I had to restart PowerShell to get the changes to my PATH to take effect, and also I had to open an Administrator PowerShell window and run set-executionpolicy remotesigned because I hit the Running scripts is disabled on this system error message.

The code samples from the guide can’t simply be copy and pasted into an editor – each is actually a single line of code and then JavaScript is applied to make it appear as though it is spread across multiple lines. This is pretty disappointing, I thought something was wrong with my local editor configuration until I hit view source on the page.

I was using Visual Studio Code, and at this point was also disappointed that SHIFT+ALT+F didn’t format the CSharp code for me, although it did format the JSON.

I’d closed my PowerShell window by this point, and when I opened a new one and ran dnu restore I got an error message about it not being on my path (The term ‘dnu’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program.). Running dnvm upgrade seems to have fixed this and I can now run the commands from both PowerShell and Command Prompt!

My “Hello World” did at least run first time. Phew!

I should now have the infrastructure to get properly going, but this was a much rougher intro than I was hoping for.