C#, Docker

Running an ASP.NET Core application targeting .NET Framework in Docker

Recently, I’ve came across an interesting challenge that was to dockerize an ASP.NET Core 2.2 application targeting .NET Framework 4.7.2. The reason this application was targeting .NET Framework was because it was using a library that unfortunately had no plans to move to the .NET Core platform. That library was a port from Java. As such I had to take a decision: rewrite the whole application in Java to support this library more natively, or try to find an alternative library that did the same thing. Sometimes it’s better to sleep on such decision. Well it paid off. I had forgotten that possibly I could use mono to run it. I took this as a challenge and used one of…

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