Author: ncpenn

If you want to run some c# code, you use Visual Studio or some other IDE. But have you ever wondered what the IDE is doing when it executes the code? What magic happens when you press the green play button? Turns out it’s just running msbuild which is a command-line tool. Now, Visual studio… Continue reading Can You Compile C# Using Only The Command Line? (No IDE)

Several years ago, the naming was simple. Microsoft made the .NET Framework. It followed a semantic versioning system with major releases, minor releases, and patch/bug fixes. And then Core came alone. .NET Core was an overhaul of the .NET architecture. Framework only ran on Windows. But Core ran on Mac and Linux as well. So,… Continue reading Clearing Up The Naming Confusion in .NET