This article will show you how to write your first ASP. NET Core Applications on a Mac With Visual Studio Code; Running Locally Using Kestrel; Publishing to.
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ASP.NET 5 is around the corner and big excitement on running ASP.NET 5 on MAC Box or under a Linux flavour. In this post I am got focus on running ASP.NET 5 application on a MAC Box. On a Linux Box like Ubuntu it will be the same. What you need?. Install ASP.NET 5 and DNX in your MAC. (Yes it true you have a Visual Studio version for your MAC Now).
(This is a web scaffolding tool that runs in a shell. You need this to create the base ASP.NET 5 project template) OK, Lets get started 1. Install ASP.NET 5 and DNX in your MAC We require a package manager called Homebrew. Open your terminal app and using this shell command install Homebrew.
Ruby -e '$(curl -fsSL Wait a few seconds and follow the install instructions, you have Homebrew installed. Open your terminal application and execute these commands to install ASP.NET 5 to your MAC. $ brew tap aspnet/dnx $ brew update $ brew install dnvm Now you need to set some environment variables to get things smooth. Use your favourite editor to do this. I used vi to edit my.bashprofile file. $ sudo vi /.bashprofile and add these lines and save the file. Now do an upgrade (a good practice if anything updated to the binaries).
$ dnvm upgrade 2. Installing Visual Studio Code for MAC From the above link visit Visual Studio web site. And you will a blue box to the left and click the download link to download and install Visual Studio Code for MAC OSX. After installing and running for the first time Visual Studio Code will look like this.
Now lets get focus on installing YeoMan for MAC. This is not a must requirement, but its recommended you have this. Using this nice little tool you can scaffold the project template for ASP.NET 5. Yep there is a small catch to do this, there are few little things to be setup before installing YeoMan. To install YeoMan you will need NPM and to install NPM you need NODE.
NPM is the package manager for NODE like you use NuGET on Visual Studio Projects. Installing NODE and NPM Now its time to install NODE and NPM. In your terminal window run this shell command. $ brew install node Wait and relax a few seconds (may be few minutes depending on your connection), NODE and NPM are installed for you. To check all are fine just run these two commands in the terminal window. $ node -v $ npm -v If you see these two outputs in your terminal, YAY!!!
You have NODE and NPM installed and you are ready to rock. Installing YEOMAN for MAC Let us install YEOMAN now and few tools required along with it. Again in your terminal window, execute this shell command. $ npm install -g yo grunt-cli bower OK cool, we are almost there to create our first ASP.NET 5 project on MAC OSX. Lets check YOMEN installed.
Just execute this simple command in your terminal window and see the output. $ yo OK, you see Aspnet in the list. This because I have already installed ASP.NET generator.
You might not see it in the first installation. To install ASP.NET generator, execute this command in your terminal window.
$ npm install -g generator-aspnet This will get you ASP.NET 5 project template scaffolding to YOMEN. Now you will get the same menu as above screenshot when you execute the command 'yo'. To create base template for ASP.NET 5, execute this command in the terminal. $ yo aspnet In the menu select an option to create the base template. Select Web Application and press ENTER Answer the project creation questions along the process. After a successful flow your folder should look like this. Now you have a base project templates.
But you need one more thing to get this run. Lets get update all the NUGET packages and dependencies. In the terminal inside your project folder execute this command. $ dnu restore Now we are done with creating the base project template for ASP.NET 5. Lets get switch to Visual Studio Code for MAC and open the folder under Explore icon. After that click on the blue Open Folder button.
Lets just browse through the files, see all the beautiful syntax highlighting and code completion built in for Visual Studio Code for MAC. Now lets start the WEB SERVER that will execute the ASP.NET 5 code. Click View Command Pallet or press APPLE KEY + P and start typing 'dnx: kestrel' and Visual Studio Code will complete the command for you and press ENTER. This will start the kestrel server for you to run the ASP.NET 5 project. Server is Started Now Open up your favourite browser and in the address bar just type If everything goes fine and you have followed the instructions correctly you must see this screen.
YOU SIMPLY ROCK!!! Wait a minute, What if you see this screen (OH! NO WHAT WENT WRONG!!!) Don't worry its a.
This command in the terminal will help you to fix it. $ export MONOMANAGEDWATCHER=false Now start the server again and you are good to go!!!