sdk-container-builds VS interactive

You can also publish .NET apps/services directly as container images [1].

Or you can distribute them as a single file, standalone, "ready to run" application, which precompiles your methods and includes the JIT. This results in a larger executable, but keeps all the functionality, including reflection and runtime code generation, intact.

And, of course, you can install .NET core directly on your Linux system, just as you would for Python or Ruby (where you also don't usually rely on the default installation).

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/docker/publish...

If you're using the https://github.com/dotnet/sdk-container-builds tech to build containers, we're working on a 0.4 version of that package that applies this rootless user by default - the goal is that the SDK tooling is the smoothest, least-effort pathway to secure, correct, best-practice containers for all .NET applications!

Alternatively, here's Microsoft's own documentation about how to do all of the above: https://github.com/dotnet/sdk-container-builds/blob/main/docs/GettingStarted.md

We've been baking this functionality directly into the .NET SDK for a couple releases now: https://github.com/dotnet/sdk-container-builds

It's really nice to derive mostly-complete container images from information your build system already has available, and the speed/UX benefits are great too!

Funny you should mention scaffolding out a Dockerfile - internally we'd been talking about that as a bridge to other services that are highly Dockerfile-based. I just logged https://github.com/dotnet/sdk-container-builds/issues/146 to track this request. We likely won't prioritize it for the 7.0 release unless we get huge amounts of feedback that it would be helpful, but it is something we'd like to do.

All of this will be accomplished inside of a single Polyglot Notebook. If you're not familiar with Polyglot Notebooks, they're a technology built on top of Jupyter Notebooks that allow you to use additional language kernels, including a F# Kernel. This lets you run interactive data science experiments in a single notebook as shown here in VS Code:

I use .NET on Linux and the experience with Rider has been great. The workflow transfers really well between Mac, Windows, and Linux, and everything works the way you expect. The only problems I run into are that there are still things that are Windows focused. For example MAUI does not run on Linux which is a shame because we could use another cross platform GUI.

There are still bugs, for example I ran into one with Polyglot Notebooks not working on Manjaro or Pop!_OS https://github.com/dotnet/interactive/issues/3159

First of all, if you have a small amount of code that lives in an individual C# file and you wanted to reference it in your notebook, you can do this via the #!import magic command as shown below:

My 2 cents: use a Personal Access Token instead of a password, it is much safer (even though not 100% safe). Some references: https://github.com/dotnet/interactive/discussions/1340 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/organizations/accounts/use-personal-access-tokens-to-authenticate

See also https://github.com/dotnet/interactive

U have Powershell notebooks https://github.com/dotnet/interactive

Or Rider or simply install dotnet by itself (very easy) and code in a notepad or VSCode. .NET interactive is another awesome way to start: https://github.com/dotnet/interactive/blob/main/docs/display-output-csharp.md

Hi! My name is Claudia and I am a PM at Microsoft (opinions are my own) working on Polyglot Notebooks in VS Code. Polyglot Notebooks are exactly what you are describing! They are notebooks where you can use multiple languages AND share variables between them to ensure a continuous workflow. Not only that, but each language has language server support. Polyglot Notebooks currently supports C#, F#, PowerShell, JavaScript, HTML, SQL, KQL, and Mermaid.

We have just added support for Python and R integration and I am actually in search of external testers! If you are willing to sign an NDA to try out our Python and R integration and give us feedback please drop your email in the form below and I will reach out with instructions for you to try it out!

https://forms.office.com/r/UQchfQSGa5

If you'd like to start trying it out today you can install the extension from the marketplace here: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-dotne...

https://github.com/dotnet/interactive

I've been excited about a lot of the work being done in .NET Interactive and Polyglot Notebooks, particuarly with ML with F#. I don't know too much about ML, so I thought I'd check out ML.NET.