csharp_devcontainer_template

Template devcontainer for C# asp.net core developement

Runs on: ubuntu 22.04

Contains: asp.net core 7.0, C# extension, C# dev kit, Git

Usage

Locally with Visual Studio Code

• Prerequisites
  • Docker installed
  • VS code with extensions "Dev Containers" installed
• Open VS code
  • Select "reopen in container"
  • Takes a couple of minutes to pull image and build container

Create projects

Create new console application

• run in terminal dotnet new console -o your_project_name

Create new asp.net core web API project

• run in terminal dotnet new webapi -o your_project_name
• accept dev certificate (Windows host only) dotnet dev-certs https --trust (for Linux see https://learn.microsoft.com/de-de/aspnet/core/security/enforcing-ssl?view=aspnetcore-7.0&tabs=visual-studio%2Clinux-ubuntu#ssl-linux)
• Run project template and check https://localhost:{port}/weatherforecast for JSON output

Create new Xunit test project

• run in terminal dotnet new xunit -o your_project_name.tests

Remark

Tested on Windows 10 with VS Code 1.79.2