Support for .Net Core and Azure DevOps

[developmentpas (Paul Sjoerdsma)]

We are going to rewrite our current Delphi DataAbstract en Remoting to C# Remoting only.
Since the resulting server will only run in the cloud we are looking at different possibilities, namely

• .Net Core (which version of .Net core is or will be supported?)
• Azure DevOps (must be able to use nuget to install necessary packages)

Area these feasible options? I find it difficult to find the answers on the support pages, other than that .Net Core will be supported in version 10.
We need to make some strategic choices in the coming weeks.

regards
Paul Sjoerdsma

[antonk]

Hello

@developmentpas

Since the resulting server will only run in the cloud we are looking at different possibilities, namely

• .Net Core (which version of .Net core is or will be supported?)
• Azure DevOps (must be able to use nuget to install necessary packages)

• .NET Core 2.0 and up is supported. Once 3.0 is out we’ll also add support of ServiceWorker to the server part
• As for the NuGet support:
  • Remoting SDK client NuGet package will be added soon ™ (read: weeks)
  • Unfortunately server part and DataAbstract use license.licx-based licensing, which is not yet supported by dotnet.exe : .NET Core MSBuild is missing the LC task · Issue #2006 · dotnet/msbuild · GitHub . There is a solution for this, based off Azure DevOps Services and a little trick of pre-compiled license: Connect to a feed and publish NuGet packages - NuGet.exe - Azure Artifacts | Microsoft Learn + Can't build a .NET Core project using dotnet publish when using RO/DA class libraries - #4 by arturomonge

That said, the services provided by Azure DevOps like NuGet private package hosting would allow you to host your own RO/DA package + precompiled license assembly.

Regards