Frankly, I don't remember. It's been a long time and using .net was a failed experiment.
>Why were you targeting mono then?
Well here's another issue with .net I ran into... really unclear guidance from numerous sources who all really wanted you to use THEIR stack and thus end up paying THEM.
I did multiple things, multiple attempts to make it work. I tried to do it "the right way" from various sources.
The reason I was targeting mono at some point was because I wanted to run a microservice, without paying windows server licenses fees, and as best I can tell, that was the root runtime I'd need to target.
Keep in mind that this was me, going in blind into a large and established ecosystem. I don't think going astray detracts from some of my bigger complaints, such as the poor quality of community open source libraries.
> Well here's another issue with .net I ran into... really unclear guidance from numerous sources who all really wanted you to use THEIR stack and thus end up paying THEM.
Meaning no offense, but it’s hard to see how you ended up so far off the mark. The .Net frameworks and runtimes (.Net Framework, .Net Core, and mono) have always been free. Likewise for the Asp.Net web framework you would have been using for web applications. I’ve been in the .Net ecosystem for over 10 years and I’m not aware of _any_ paid web stacks that would align with the quote above. Not to say that they don’t exist somewhere out there to extract money from foolish enterprise IT departments, but they aren’t even close to mainstream. If you did this experiment within the last 5 years it would have been extraordinarily hard for you to miss out on .Net Core, especially considering it was built to do exactly what you want - microservices with Linux as a first class citizen.
> really unclear guidance from numerous sources who all really wanted you to use THEIR stack and thus end up paying THEM
Sorry but at this point it is hard to believe you are posting in good faith and not trolling. Even back in the Windows only days the runtime was free and there was free dev tools (VS C# Express). Mono was free too, and open source. I know no paying runtime and I've been using the language and tools as a daily driver for a decade.
It's been possible to build micro-services in ASP.net Core running on Linux (and in Docker containers) for the last 3 years very easily.
Agree, I decided not to reply - if, a year ago, you ended up on the path of "compile to run on mono", you didn't bother to read any of the .net5 documentation - and without checking, likely just the main download page for dotnet core. /shrug
