The course has some drawbacks, mainly the .NET version its based on. Since I program on Linux, I've found myself some shortcommings that I'd like to write down in the remote case anyone is in a similar situation or setup as mine.

You'll need, first of all, the SDK and run-times that the course is based on. Luckily, Microsoft offers a handy script that basically downloads all the .rpms you'll need and installs them for you. I cannot find the page that I found the script but you can download it here

However, when executing the script, you may encounter some issues if you already have installed previous versions. At time of writing this, the LTS and Standard versions are 6.0 and 7.0 respectively.

For those of you running Fedora Workstation, you'll be glad to know you can cd to the directory where all the .rmps are and run sudo yum localinstall * --allowerase. Which will remove the dependencies that you have in place for the 8.0 preview.

You'll be able now to use dotnet restore succesfully. Although there are some other issues we have to attend first.

If you are using Linux like me, doing things like migrations, database updates and other shennanigans that use the NuGet packet manager available in Visual Studio, you'll need to install globally available tools since it relies on EntityFramework and I'm using Neovim we'll have to use the good ol' CLI to accomplish the same tasks

• EntityFramework

Now we can use dotnet user-secrets init so we create a secrets.json that can be called anywhere in the project where we need. We should add our connection string first so we can create our first migration and update the SQL table.

Database=master; User=sa; Password=pwd; TrustServerCertificate=true;" ```

We should `dotnet clean && dotnet build` for good measure and run:

``` dotnet ef migrations add <MigrationName> dotnet ef database update ```

If all went well, we should see a succesfull message on our CLI.