I’m happy to announce the release of ServiceWire 5.0 with .NET Core support published to NuGet today. The final trick was preparation of the NuGet package which was greatly helped by Armen Shimoon of dotnetliberty on using project.json for NuGet package metadata. The post was written in January 2016, so it was a bit out of date. The project.json file ended up like this:

{
  "name": "ServiceWire",
  "title": "ServiceWire",
  "authors": [ "Tyler Jensen" ],
  "description": "ServiceWire is a very fast...",
  "projectUrl": "https://github.com/tylerjensen/ServiceWire",
  "packOptions": {
    "iconUrl": "http://www.tsjensen.com/blog/image.axd?picture=2014/11/swlogo_sm.png",
    "licenseUrl": "http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0",
    "copyright": "Tyler Jensen 2013-2016",
    "owners": [ "Tyler Jense" ],
    "summary": "ServiceWire is a fast and easy RPC library...",
    "releaseNotes": "BREAKING CHANGES: Ported to .NET Core netstandard1.6...",
    "tags": [ "WCF", "Services", "Host", "Client", "..." ]
  },
  "version": "5.0.0-*",

  "dependencies": {
    "NETStandard.Library": "1.6.0",
    "Newtonsoft.Json": "9.0.1"
  },

  "frameworks": {
    "netstandard1.6": {
      "imports": "dnxcore50",
      "dependencies": {
        "System.Reflection.Emit": "4.0.1",
        "System.Threading.Thread": "4.0.0"
      }
    },
    "net45": {
      "dependencies": {
        "System.Reflection.Emit": "4.0.1"
      },
      "frameworkAssemblies": {
        "System.Management": "4.0.0.0"
      }
    },
    "net461": {
      "dependencies": {
        "System.IO.Pipes": "4.0.0",
        "System.Reflection.Emit": "4.0.1",
        "System.Threading.Thread": "4.0.0"
      },
      "frameworkAssemblies": {
        "System.Management": "4.0.0.0"
      }
    },
    "net40": {
      "frameworkAssemblies": {
        "System.Management": "4.0.0.0"
      }
    },
    "net35": {
      "dependencies": {
        "TaskParallelLibrary": "1.0.2856"
      }
    }
  }
}

Then packaging up the NuGet package was easy with this command:

dotnet pack ServiceWire.Core -c Release -o D:\NugetPackages

Then just push it to NuGet. Simple as that.

And this concludes the porting of ServiceWire to .NET Core. But there’s more. There is always more. Some features were disabled in the NET Stardard 1.6 build and so a bit of utility work is still required. And there is some fun work ahead to make the library even easier to use. And then there is some performance work that out to be done along with some new unit tests using xUnit.

If you enjoy using ServiceWire, I’d love to hear from you. And I would love to have more pull requests from those who find bugs or ways to improve it.