Tag / dotnet core

by Ricardo Sanchez

Failed to authenticate HTTPS connection. Conflicting certificates for localhost when using Visual Studio for Mac

Lately, I have been trying Visual Studio for Mac as this version of Visual Studio has evolved significantly. However, something I noticed is that since I don’t use it often, the local SSL certificates created by dotnet in the Mac get a bit screwy.

There is a possibility that you might end up with a conflicting certificate for localhost from creating or setting up applications in the past.

If you work with the Mac version of Visual Studio, and you ever get the following error, run the commands at the bottom to clean up the existing certificates for localhost and create new ones.

Failed to authenticate HTTPS connection. System.IO.IOException: Authentication failed because the remote party has closed the transport stream.

Open the terminal window, browse to your dotnet project and execute the following commands:

$dotnet dev-certs https --clean
$dotnet dev-certs https

Happy coding!

by Ricardo Sanchez

Create and Deploy a React App to Azure using .NET Core and Azure CLI on Mac

Prerequisites

Getting Started

In this tutorial, you’ll set up your Mac to do development using .NET Core and Azure. The tutorial also shows you the new and powerful .NET Core Command Line Interface (CLI) Tools.

After you have installed the .NET Core SDK and Visual Studio for Mac, open a terminal window and type the following:

$ cd /users/

$ cd users/yourusername/projects

$ mkdir samplereactapp 

$ cd samplereactapp

The above commands will do the following: browse to the Mac user’s Projects directory and create a new directory to place the react app that we are about to create.

.NET Core CLI

.NET Core’s Command Line Interface (CLI) is very powerful, it allows you to do a lot without leaving the command line which allows for the fast and straightforward creation of these projects. Double-check your current directory is the new directory you’ve created, in our example this is samplecreateapp. 

To make sure the .NET Core was correctly installed, type dotnet –info in the terminal, you should see output that looks like this:

.net core CLI

Once you have confirmed that you have all the needed prerequisites, let’s continue to build the React web app. Continue reading →

by Ricardo Sanchez

Creating a new .NET Core application using the dotnet command line

.NET Core is a general purpose development platform maintained by Microsoft and the .NET community on GitHub. It is cross-platform, supporting Windows, macOS, and Linux, and can be used in device, cloud, and embedded/IoT scenarios.

This is a simple guide to get you started with .NET Core by creating a simple Web API template using the command prompt. The example below, while simple, it shows how powerful and fluid this platform is.

First, let’s find out if you have the .NET Core platform installed, to do this, just open a command prompt and type the following command:

c:where dotnet

If you have it installed, the above command will show the path to the .NET Core executable. If it doesn’t show you a path to the executable, then you don’t have it yet and you can install it from here.

Now let’s find out what version is installed, in the command prompt, type the following:

C:dotnet --version

The above command will display the installed version. If you have an older version, you can get an updated version here.

One you have this platform installed, you’ll be set to create your first .NET Core application. To create a new ASP.NET Core web api, type the following commands:

// Create new directory
C:>mkdir api

// Go to that directory
C:cd api

// Create new application using the webapi template
C:api>dotnet new webapi api

// Restores the dependencies and tools of a project
C:api>dotnet restore

//Runs source code without any explicit compile or launch commands
C:api>dotnet run

Once you do this, you’ll have a running web api application. This is what you’ll see in the command prompt:

To edit this application, I recommend you download Visual Studio Code or use any other text editor.

Also, in the example above I used the templace webapi to create a ASP.NET Core web api, but there are many other templates you can use to create different applications:

Template description Template name Languages
Console application console [C#], F#
Class library classlib [C#], F#
Unit test project mstest [C#], F#
xUnit test project xunit [C#], F#
ASP.NET Core empty web [C#]
ASP.NET Core web app mvc [C#], F#
ASP.NET Core web api webapi [C#]
Nuget config nugetconfig
Web config webconfig
Solution file sln

Want to create a new Angular or React application? You can install all the available single page application (SPA) templates using the following command:

dotnet new --install Microsoft.AspNetCore.SpaTemplates::*
Templates                              Short Name        Language       
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Console Application                      console         [C#], F#      
Class library                            classlib        [C#], F#      
Unit Test Project                        mstest          [C#], F#      
xUnit Test Project                       xunit           [C#], F#      
Empty ASP.NET Core Web Application       web             [C#]          
MVC ASP.NET Core Web Application         mvc             [C#], F#      
MVC ASP.NET Core with Angular            angular         [C#]          
MVC ASP.NET Core with Aurelia            aurelia         [C#]          
MVC ASP.NET Core with Knockout.js        knockout        [C#]          
MVC ASP.NET Core with React.js           react           [C#]          
MVC ASP.NET Core with React.js and Redux reactredux      [C#]          
Web API ASP.NET Core Web Application     webapi          [C#]          
Solution File                            sln

Happy coding!