I wrote this tweet roughly a week ago about the state of .NET development that I was seeing on Twitter:

Seeing a LOT of folks online who still believe .NET is:
Windows only
Visual Studio only

I’m thinking of running “Minimal March” – all .NET Core and Blazor on stream with vim and command-line tools. Let’s show folks how cool, simple, and fast .NET tooling is

— Jeff Fritz (@csharpfritz) February 22, 2020

I see ‘Minimal March’ as a developer challenge for me, I’m someone who has spent the majority of the last 15 years working in a version of Visual Studio and C#. Let’s take away those comfortable and productive tools and expose me to more operating systems and more ways that folks can write applications. In this post, I’m going to outline the parameters of this .NET development event and show my initial configuration on Linux. I built this configuration live on my Twitch stream on March 1, 2020.

Watch Minimal March begins! .NET and Blazor development with text editors and command-line tools. !coffee from csharpfritz on www.twitch.tv Continue reading →