The long awaited support for .NET 6.0 on AWS Lambda has finally been released. My Twitter bot runs on .NET Core 3.1 in a Lambda function and I have been meaning to update it to .NET 6 for a while. So let’s do just that! I’ll be following the steps on the announcement blog post to migrate to 6.0. Project file The following items need to be updated in the project file:

Developing ASP.NET Core web apps with MS SQL Server databases on macOS is not very straightforward, as I’ve blogged about before. There’s lots of custom scripts needed and it’s complicated for a new developer to get started in a project like this. My current project Gig Local had this very problem, so I decided enough was enough, and went all in with Dev Containers to make local development easier. In this post, I’ll walk through how to configure a Dev Container to develop an ASP.

I created the .NET Twitter Bot in January 2020 and it has been running ever since, amassing a decent following with over 2,000 followers at the time of writing this post. The bot was initially setup to simply search for #dotnet related tweets every 30 minutes and retweet them. As you can imagine, with such a simple bot, it was sometimes retweeting tweets that were not related to .NET at all.