Red Hat DevNation / Summit Trip Report– .NET Core 1.0 Releases!

07/01/2016

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What a week! If you didn’t hear, we released .NET Core 1.0 on Monday at Red Hat DevNation. .NET Core is a cross-platform, open source, and modular .NET platform for creating modern web apps, microservices and libraries that run on Windows, Linux and Mac. Congrats to everyone who made the .NET Core 1.0 release possible! This is a huge milestone for .NET that will take the platform another 15 years into the future.

You can watch the keynote where Scott Hanselman gets on stage and shows off the release of .NET Core running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (he starts a little after an hour into it).

Get started with .NET Core here: https://dot.net/core

Also check out our new C# interactive tutorials, documentation, and API reference!

I had the pleasure of speaking on a panel and running a booth with some fantastic team members at Red Hat Dev Nation & Summit. I have to say that people were genuinely excited (and frankly shocked) that .NET Core was available to RHEL developers. We had tons of swag that ran out the first day and a lot of people coming by the Microsoft area in general to learn about all the announcements that were made. Here’s a recap.

Announcements

Press

As I mentioned above, the .NET Core release announcement made #1 on Hacker News and we had an incredible amount of traffic to the post. We also had a lot of conversations and congratulations on twitter. Follow @dotnet on twitter and check out the hashtags #dotnetcore, #aspnetcore.

My Take on the Red Hat Crowd

It was truly a wonderful and welcoming experience being at a conference where you never thought you’d be representing Microsoft. It was different but familiar at the same time. This is an enterprise developer conference and they share the same struggles as Microsoft enterprise developers. Containerization, heterogeneous systems, microservices, and modern cloud application lifecycle management are definitely the same struggles I hear at our own conferences. The crowd was very much interested in our technologies like SQL and .NET running on Linux as they look to move to modern workloads.

Special thanks to Todd Mancini @ToddMancini and Harry Mower @harrymower for your hard work on DevNation and the great partnership.

Enjoy!