Support for CoreCLR

[niemyjski]

Will there be any support for the new core clr?
https://aspnet.uservoice.com/forums/252111-asp-net-vnext/suggestions/7648077-corefx-should-include-system-net-mail

Also, it would be sweet if we could configure this library with smtp defaults via environmental variables as this is a part of vnext.

[jstedfast]

I'll happily accept a csproj file to build for Core CLR but I don't want to add support for loading default settings from environment variables - it just would not fit nicely with the API.

[jstedfast]

if you could send me an empty Library Project .csproj file for CoreCLR, I can probably commit them in a few minutes (I'm betting it compiles without any (or very few) changes).

Note: I'd do this myself if I was 1. using Windows and 2. had VS 2015 installed, but I'm on a Mac.

[jstedfast]

Actually, can't you just reference a .NET4.5 assembly and be done?

[niemyjski]

There are two different run times, the core clr can't reference .net 4.5/4.6 assemblies

[niemyjski]

Vnext won't support web.config/ will have generic configuration that runs off anything (environment variables, json, ini, etc)

[jstedfast]

Okay, well, if you can get me a blank Library Project template, I can probably copy/paste the <Compile Include="..." /> lines into it and it'll probably more-or-less work. Looks like serialization isn't supported, so I'll probably have to add a DEFINE for that, but no big deal.

[jstedfast]

Do you mean you want a DNX project?

[niemyjski]

Yes, DNX which uses a new project format too.

[jstedfast]

You can already reference MimeKit and MailKit from DNX projects in VS2015 (I just tested this).

[akoeplinger]

@jstedfast it only works for the Desktop .NET target, but not for the .NET Core based one, which is what this issue was about:

[jstedfast]

Ah, thanks. What's the correct way to create a .NET Core project in VS2015? The NewProject templates I see don't make it obvious (to me, at least).

[akoeplinger]

@jstedfast If you create a new "Visual C# > Web > Class Library (Package)" project, that should give you the refactored BCL packages in project.json with the new dotnet TFM (read more about that here).

That uses the DNX project system though, I believe there'll be a way to make a csproj targeting .NET Core in the future.

[jstedfast]

Thanks, I'll give that a go