How to setup ASP.NET Core 2.1 on Linux in under 10 minutes

I was pleasantly surprised by how easy it was to setup and install ASP.NET Core 2.1 on Linux. I did it for the first time in 15 minutes with no previous experience with .NET Core on Linux. I did it the second time, in production, in 5 minutes by following these instructions.

In this article, I show you how to install the .NET Core runtime on CentOS, how to get a sample ASP.NET Core …

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How to run Linux in Hyper-V on Windows

Spinning up a new Linux VM using Hyper-V is surprisingly easy. I managed to get CentOS installed and running on Windows Server 2016 is no time, but there were a few gotchas along the way.

In this post, I document the steps I took to install CentOS 7.5 on Hyper-V. I installed Hyper-V on a Windows Server 2016 box, but these steps should also work just as easily on Windows 10 and with …

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