Updated Plugin Docs for .NET Core

[mutu310 70]

I submitted a pull request. Give it a shot. Make sure you have visual studio 2017 installed + the .net core 2.0 sdk.

Thanks for the effort, but this is giving the same problems as I was getting. The plugin fails to show in the plugins screen and running any of the scheduled tasks throws this exception:

 

2017-09-09 07:37:12.034 Error App: LoaderException: Declaration referenced in a method implementation cannot be a final method. Type: 'MediaBrowser.Channels.BlurN.Plugin'. Assembly: 'MediaBrowser.Channels.BlurN, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'.

 

Tested on 3.2.30.0 stable on Windows 10.

Edited September 9, 2017 by mutu310

[Luke 42077]

on the beta server?

[mutu310 70]

on the beta server?

3.2.30.0 stable on Windows 10

[Luke 42077]

Ok, this entire topic here is all about the beta server + .net core server. So the work I did is targeting that. We'll have a new stable out soon enough. My suggestion would be to just stick with this for now.

[mutu310 70]

Ok, this entire topic here is all about the beta server + .net core server. So the work I did is targeting that. We'll have a new stable out soon enough. My suggestion would be to just stick with this for now.

So in the meantime all the users on stable which are the majority especially if they have a NAS like Synology have to deal with errors popping up every few minutes? Analytics are showing me a big drop in userbase as people are just uninstalling the plugin because it's broken. It will probably take a while for core to make it onto Synology, no?

[Luke 42077]

what i submitted in the pull request is dual compatible with both frameworks, starting with the next release of the server.

[mutu310 70]

what i submitted in the pull request is dual compatible with both frameworks, starting with the next release of the server.

 

OK, hope it goes stable ASAP on all platforms

[Luke 42077]

For those who need to create dual assemblies, I've updated the docs on how to do that. Thanks.

[pulse00 3]

@@Luke if a plugin targets dotnet core 2.0, can it use 3rd party nuget packages? I've tried to do this, but the runtime fails to load the assembly - i've simply copied the .dll file of the dependcy to the emby server directory. This worked before but fails with the emby server dotnet core version.

[Luke 42077]

Haven't tried it but i think it would be fine if the third party lib targets 2.0 core as well.

[Luke 42077]

The nuget package is now out of beta. This is just for your own information. It doesn't require submitting another new update. Thanks.

[Frank Drebin 2]

Please upload Gamebrowser source without errors pls.

[Luke 42077]

Gamebrowser compiles just fine in my testing. Even another user was able to build and submit a pull request on it. Thanks.

[Frank Drebin 2]

Thanks for replying Luke.

 

When i compile it, it gives me 13 errors:

 

Error CS0246:  The type or namespace name 'XmlDocument' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

 

Im using VS2017.

[ebr 16169]

Make sure you have all the references correct and all NuGet packages properly installed/restored.

[Luke 42077]

Great news everyone. I have updated and simplified the plugin building instructions. Now that we are requiring a higher minimum mono version, we can now assume that all platforms support .NET Standard 2.0, and therefore dual targeting is no longer necessary. That means you can produce one single plugin binary that will run on all platforms supported by Emby Server.

 

The next time you update your plugin, please do the following:

• In the csproj, set your target frameworks to netstandard2.0. (netstandard 1.3, net46 no longer needed)
• Update to the latest nuget packages

Important - This is just for your information and does not require you to immediately publish a plugin update.

 

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[mutu310 70]

Beautiful. I'll issue a new build later.