Consider multi-targeting your projects to support .NET 8

[dlandi]

Consider multi-targeting your projects to support .NET 8

[linkdotnet]

Hey @dlandi - Is there any specific need to use net8.0? I do understand that this is a LTS release.

Enabling multiple versions might increase maintainability costs.

[dlandi]

Presumably, 99% of your code is written in .NET 8.
I can't install .NET 9 on my work machine at the moment (because it interferes with Project Nuget Package Management ).
So my only alternative is to use your last commit before upgrading to .NET 9.

[linkdotnet]

Hmm I see your point. While I make myself some thoughts about that, there might be an easy way out for the meantime.

The GitHub repo offers a codespace / devcontainer—basically a running docker-container in the cloud with VS Code.
Every GitHub user has 120 CPU hours a month for free - that should be enough to play around without downloading anything to your local machine.

You can easily create a devcontainer:

^{As you can see I am using this feature myself quite often}

For playing around 4 CPU's should be good enough. There are predefined tasks like running the whole blog. You can also use the cmd or the UI:

In same cases (I am figuring out why) it can happen that you manually have to run:

dotnet dev-certs https --trust

Even though that should happen when the container is built. But the error message should indicate that. Anyway, once you are running the blog, it should open a popup / or you go to ports:

This will open a new tab with the blog running.

[dlandi]

I'll look into it. Thanks.