Hello .NET Core Worker Services! | C# Background Services Course (Episode 1)

In this video I show you how to create a .NET Core Worker in both the dotnet CLI with VS Code and Visual Studio using the new worker template. Then I'll show you around the worker so you can get to know them a bit better.

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.NET Worker Services are a brilliant place to start creating background services for your web applications, or Linux and Windows apps.

You'll need the .NET SDK (minimum version 3.1):

If using VS Code, definitely install the C# extension because it gives you debugging, intellisense, code completion and more:

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0:00 Introduction
1:30 Creating a Worker with Visual Studio 2019
2:39 Creating a Worker with CLI and VS Code
5:30 Worker Lifecycle methods
6:50 Running the Worker in Debug
7:10 Conclusion

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[RayPJenkins]

Awesome videos, I do a lot of work with Kafka. These videos are very interesting to see alternatives out there

[MiceDevelopment]

You actually deserved alot more of subscriber

[manipathak]

This is all crystal clear! Keep it up bro..

[diegoza]

Is it possible to call Process.Start(pathFile);
It seems blocked by os permission..
Strange than in Visual Studio it works but when installed in production (Windows Services) the code not working..

[maksimsd]

Thank you! How to install Worker Service as a demon on Linux?

[Aashka_The_Mystic]

'code' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

I have SDK 6 😐

[seanh]

Question: why are you using VS Code instead of Visual Studio? It seems that you could do all the work for this within Visual Studio itself, instead of going to VS Code...

[TheChandraak]

You have not shown how it run on Docker/Container..