.NET Core support

[ian-moore]

I would like to use this in a .NET Core app, it would be nice if FSharp.Azure.Storage supported .NET Standard. I will take a look into this myself and see if it can be accomplished

[daniel-chambers]

Great; I've been hanging back from .NET Core while it's been tumultuous, but if you're willing to take a look and see what's required, that'd be awesome. :)

[ian-moore]

I am not an expert on .NET Core but here's what I'm seeing after making a quick attempt:

• Will have to target .NET Standard 2.0 (and thus needs .NET Core SDK 2.0 - still in preview) due to some properties on Type not available in previous .NET Standard versions.
• Unquote is not on .NET Standard yet, but the package can be added to a .NET Standard 2.0 library. I assume this limits deployment options.
• Updating WindowsAzure.Storage to a .NET Standard compatible version has some API changes. Hard for me to verify these since ionide-vscode doesn't have working intellisense for .NET Standard 2.0 yet. lib targeting netstandard2.0 parse ok but intellisense fails ionide/FsAutoComplete#180

I probably won't take this much further until .NET Standard 2.0 is complete.

[daniel-chambers]

Thanks for the investigation, that's great information to know. I think a quite a few F# things are backed up behind .NET Standard 2.0. We should definitely circle back once it's complete.

[vrobinson]

Any update now that:

• .NET core/Standard 2.0 has been released: https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/master/roadmap.md
• Unquote supports .NET Standard 2.0: https://github.com/SwensenSoftware/unquote/wiki/ReleaseNotes

One thing to note is that it appears that WindowsAzure.Storage will re-introduce APIs that were removed under .NET Core: Azure/azure-storage-net#367

[daniel-chambers]

Yeah, now that .NET Standard 2.0 is out, this is definitely something I'll look at when I've got a chance. :)