.NET Core 2.0: Is it ready?

In anticipation of the up-coming .NET Core 2.0 release (and the preview currently available), Todd, Jess, and Chris offer their answers to some of the frequently asked questions around .NET Core, such as:

• Does .NET Core 2.0 have all the namespaces/APIs as .NET 4.6?
• Does .NET Core support Visual Basic (VB.NET) yet?
• What about SignalR - is that available?
• What options do I have when running my ASP.NET Core applications? Do I have to use IIS? What about Docker?
• What is .NET Standard (and should I care)?
• What’s the best IDE to use when building an ASP.NET Core application?

And, of course…

• Should I start moving from .NET 4.6 to .NET Core now? Is it ready for prime time?

  Links and References

• Webinar courtesy of PostSharp: Who needs Visual Studio? A look at .NET Core on Linux
• Build 2017 Sessions online
• An overview of .NET Core, discussing the approach, features, and goals
• Visual Basic in .NET Core announced with .NET Core 2.0 Preview 1 (It’s there… search for “Visual Basic is now Supported” on the page)
• Visual Studio 2017 Preview (Includes tooling for Visual Basic in .NET Core and .NET Core 2.0 / ASP.NET Core 2.0)
• ASP.NET Core SignalR at Build (video)
• ASP.NET Core SignalR Repository
• ASP.NET Core Roadmap
• Socket.io - Real-Time Web in Node
• Anders Hejlsberg: What’s New In TypeScript (video) (This turned out to be a good introduction to TypeScript and how it can help you in different ways, you can choose what you want to adopt)
• Kestrel in production (internet facing) and using a reverse proxy “If you expose your application to the Internet, you must use IIS, Nginx, or Apache as a reverse proxy server.”
• Matt Watson from Stackify has some plain english on this on the Stackify blog (Thank you Matt!)
• You will need the “ASP.NET Core Module” to run Kestrel behind IIS
• Introducing .NET Standard (blog post)
• .NET Standard documentation
• Visual Studio for Mac