On Saturday, June 2, 2018, I had the chance to participate in the .NET Core Community online Hackathon.

As I got up really early this Saturday morning, I took the opportunity to participate. My goal was to see something new and learn a bit about how .NET Core is built and gain some new experience.

Since Microsoft went to Windows as a service, so since Windows 10, I fully re-install my development machine, a Surface Book, with each main release of Windows.

As I hate to lose time, I searched a way to automate it, so that it is fast, repeatable and does the work, not me.

I am just back from 2.5 months unpaid leave which I used to spend time with my family. So, I almost did not spend time with software development. One exception is that I wanted to be able to configure Visual Studio 2017 to be able to debug into ASP.NET Core 2.0 source code.

After running a first console app on my Raspberry Pi 3, I had to try ASP.NET Core and API. Two weeks ago when I posted “.NET Core console app running on Raspberry Pi”, I could make API working, but I had no chance with MVC. Today it worked!

Now that there is a distribution of .NET Core on a Linux distro running on my Raspberry Pi 3, I had to try it.

In this post, I will explain all the steps I had to execute to be able to run my first Hello World application.

In the last posts, we looked at the code to build a HipChat Connect add-on with ASP.NET Core, run the solution in a Docker container and secure the access to the application with a valid HTTPS certificate that we got from Let’s Encrypt for free and finally deploy all of this on Azure!

Following my previous posts on ASP.NET Core RC2, Docker and HipChat Connect add-on and Deploying Docker containers running ASP.NET Core RC2 to Microsoft Azure Cloud I needed, as promised in the last post, to come with a solution to secure the whole with an HTTPS certificate!

Following my previous post on ASP.NET Core RC2, Docker and HipChat Connect add-on I wanted to learn the next step which is to deploy my Docker container on the Microsoft Azure Cloud!

This weekend ASP.NET Core RC2 was starting to show up! And it finally was released today. Get it fresh from here. We had here a long three days weekend with quite awful gray clouds and cold weather for the season, so a perfect excuse to get started!

I have been playing with all Docker tools for quite some time now! Started with the command line and all its commands like docker start, stop, ps, etc… Then I tried Kitematic and even compiled it from the source before it was supporting Windows! Then Docker Toolbox.