This guide shows how to create and execute .NET Core console application which uses ServiceStack.Client

At the first step you need to install Visual Studio 2015 update 3 and .NET Core 1.0.0 - VS 2015 Tooling Preview. Also you need to install ServiceStack Templates for Visual Studio.

To get more details about Visual Studio 2015 update 3 and .NET Core installation you can visit .NET Core site

In Visual Studio click File-> New-> Project and select .NET Core/Console Application (.NET Core) from VS templates.

You will get following structure in Solution Explorer.

Right click on the project and select Add ServiceStack Reference

Then type in address field http://techstacks.io and TechStacks in name field and click OK.

You should get following project structure

And following project.json file

Then open file Program.cs and write the code

using System;
using ServiceStack;
using ServiceStack.Text;
using TechStacks.ServiceModel;

namespace ConsoleApplication
{
    public class Program
    {
        public static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            var client = new JsonServiceClient("http://techstacks.io/");
            var response = client.Get(new GetAllTechnologies());

            //Print contents of the first technology to the Console
            response.Results[0].PrintDump();
        }
    }
}

Then hit "run" button (F5). You should get following JSON output:

Suppose that you have ubuntu 16.04 installed (to see installation instructions for other OS you can visit .NET Core site). Run commands in the console:

sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://apt-mo.trafficmanager.net/repos/dotnet-release/ xenial main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/dotnetdev.list'
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver apt-mo.trafficmanager.net --recv-keys 417A0893
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install curl dotnet-dev-1.0.0-preview2-003121

dotnet new

This command will create project.json and Program.cs files in current folder.

Open project.json for edit:

nano project.json

and edit empty dependencies: {} section add ServiceStack references:

dependencies: {
    "ServiceStack.Text.Core" : "1.0.1",
    "ServiceStack.Text.Client": "1.0.1"
}

type Ctrl+X to exit. Answer 'yes' to save changes in the file.

then open and edit Program.cs file. Type nano Program.cs and copy the code:

using System;
using ServiceStack;
using ServiceStack.Text;
using TechStacks.ServiceModel;

namespace ConsoleApplication
{
    public class Program
    {
        public static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            var client = new JsonServiceClient("http://techstacks.io/");
            var response = client.Get(new GetAllTechnologies());

            //Print contents of the first technology to the Console
            response.Results[0].PrintDump();
        }
    }
}

Finally, download Techstacks CS types:

curl -L http://techstacks.io/types/csharp -o TechStacks.dto.cs

In console type:

dotnet restore
dotnet run

The first command restores packages and second compiles and runs the application and outputs json of the first TechStack technology to console.

ServiceStack.Client.Core is implemented to support .NETStandard 1.1 interface. This means that ServiceStack.Client.Core has limited support of the API methods which are available in .NET 4.5 version of this library. These clients are not supported:

• ServerEventsClient
• WcsServiceClient
• EncryptedServiceClient