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There’s been quiet a few announcements throughout Build 2015. One of the many aspects that I am excited about is the new cross platform runtime environment called DNX, or the .NET Execution Environment.
The .NET Execution Environment (DNX) provides a consistent development and execution environment across multiple platforms (Windows, OS X, Linux), multiple CPU architectures (x86, x64) and different .NET flavors (.NET Framework, .NET Core and Mono).
There has been a lot of talk about how we can run more and more cross-platform during the conference and that’s what DNX is all about. There are several different pieces to DNX, including:
What all of this means is that we can run console apps/asp.net 5/entity framework on anything that can run DNX. So think Mac’s, Linux, Raspberry Pi’s etc.
CoreCLR contains the .NET Core runtime and the base library called mscorlib. It includes the garbage collector, JIT compiler, base .NET data types and many low-level classes.
DNX contains the CoreCLR and the base parts of CoreFx which includes classes for collections, file systems, console, XML, async and many others.
Before you can install any DNX runtimes you need to install DNVM. There are a few ways to install the DNVM. Personally I prefer running the following powershell command:
C:\Dev> powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy unrestricted -Command "&{iex ((new-object net.webclient).DownloadString('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aspnet/Home/dev/dnvminstall.ps1'))}"
Once that command has been executed, you will see similar console output to the following:
Using temporary directory: C:\Users\SBLACK~1\AppData\Local\Temp\dnvminstall
Downloading DNVM.ps1 to
Downloading DNVM.cmd to
Installing DNVM
Installing .NET Version Manager to C:\Users\sblackler\.dnx\bin
Creating destination folder 'C:\Users\sblackler\.dnx\bin' ...
Installing 'dnvm.ps1' to 'C:\Users\sblackler\.dnx\bin' ...
Installing 'dnvm.cmd' to 'C:\Users\sblackler\.dnx\bin' ...
Adding C:\Users\sblackler\.dnx\bin to Process PATH
Adding C:\Users\sblackler\.dnx\bin to User PATH
Adding C:\Users\sblackler\.dnx to Process DNX_HOME
Adding C:\Users\sblackler\.dnx to User DNX_HOME
After that has been completed, restart powershell and you should have the DNVM bits installed. You can verify this using the following command:
dnvm
To install the latest .NET Core-based DNX, use the dnvm install command:
dnvm install -r coreclr latest
This will install the 32-bit version of .NET Core. If you want the 64-bit version, you can specify processor architecture.
dnvm install -r coreclr -arch x64 latest
Then, you can see the currently installed DNX versions with dnvm list:
dnvm list
Which, after running the above commands, results in the following output from the command above:
Active Version Runtime Architecture Location Alias
------ ------- ------- ------------ -------- -----
1.0.0-beta5-11682 coreclr x64 C:\Users\sblackler\.dnx\runtimes
* 1.0.0-beta5-11682 coreclr x86 C:\Users\sblackler\.dnx\runtimes
Interestingly, when you install each of the runtimes, the installer generates native images for the target machine which improves the start up performance.
If you have the need to switch between different versions of DNX, you can use the dnvm use command which has the following format:
dnvm use -r coreclr -arch <arch> <version>
Where <arch> is, replace with the architecture that you would like to have; eg: x86, x64. With <version> replace with the version number that is shown in dnvm list:
dnvm use -r coreclr -arch x86 1.0.0-beta5-11682
The above is used to switch the current runtime to the x86 version of the 1.0.0-beta5-11682 build of DNX. To switch to the x64 version, simply switch out x86 for x64:
dnvm use -r coreclr -arch x64 1.0.0-beta5-11682
This only makes the DNX runtime apply to the current terminal session. We do have options of adding it to the user profile or the system profile (the system profile is not recommend). Usually, when we run dnvm use we get something along the lines of:
Adding C:\Users\sblackler\.dnx\runtimes\dnx-coreclr-win-x64.1.0.0-beta5-11682\bin to process PATH
Which gives us the following output in dnvm list:
Active Version Runtime Architecture Location Alias
------ ------- ------- ------------ -------- -----
* 1.0.0-beta5-11682 coreclr x64 C:\Users\sblackler\.dnx\runtimes
1.0.0-beta5-11682 coreclr x86 C:\Users\sblackler\.dnx\runtimes
Note the astrix above? That signifies the current running DNX environment. If we wish to persist that environment within our profile we add -p to our dnvm use command:
C:\Dev> dnvm use -r coreclr -arch x64 1.0.0-beta5-11682 -p
Adding C:\Users\sblackler\.dnx\runtimes\dnx-coreclr-win-x64.1.0.0-beta5-11682\bin to process PATH
Adding C:\Users\sblackler\.dnx\runtimes\dnx-coreclr-win-x64.1.0.0-beta5-11682\bin to user PATH
This time you see DNVM has added the run time to the user path, so the next time you start a terminal session, that will be the selected runtime.
Aliasing is useful so you don’t have to remember those lovely version strings. To see the current aliases setup in your environment use, dnvm alias. This acts the exact same as the dnvm list command. Here is a sample output:
Alias Name
----- ----
Beta5 dnx-coreclr-win-x86.1.0.0-beta5-11682
You can create aliases in a few ways. The first is to specify the name and the version:
dnvm alias Beta5 -Version 1.0.0-beta5-11682 -Runtime coreclr
Using the above command, DNVM will create an alias for version 1.0.0-beta5-11682 with the x86 architecture on coreclr. Given that I have both x86 and x64 runtimes installed, I would suggest that the order of preference for the runtimes is x86, x64, arm, mono, everything else. However, we can specify a specific architecture with the command:
C:\Dev> dnvm alias Beta5 -Version 1.0.0-beta5-11682 -Architecture x64 -Runtime coreclr
Updating alias 'Beta5' to 'dnx-coreclr-win-x64.1.0.0-beta5-11682'
By specifying the architecture and using the same alias name, the DNVM has updated the alias to use the correct runtime. -Version, -Runtime and -Architecture can be shortened to -v, -r and -a respectively. If no runtime is specified, DNVM will default to the clr runtime.
When you have aliasing setup, you can use the alias within the dnvm use command. Note that you have to specify the runtime if you are not selecting the clr option:
C:\Dev> dnvm use Beta5x86 -r coreclr
Adding C:\Users\sblackler\.dnx\runtimes\dnx-coreclr-win-x86.1.0.0-beta5-11682\bin to process PATH
C:\Dev> dnvm list
Active Version Runtime Architecture Location Alias
------ ------- ------- ------------ -------- -----
1.0.0-beta5-11682 coreclr x64 C:\Users\sblackler\.dnx\runtimes Beta5
* 1.0.0-beta5-11682 coreclr x86 C:\Users\sblackler\.dnx\runtimes Beta5x86
Before you can run your program, you need to ensure that your packages are restored. So enter dnu:
dnu restore
As mentioned earlier, dnu is all the other tools. It does builds, package restore and alot more. It can be thought of as a NuGet client plus more. Once the packages are restored, you can run your application:
dnx <path> run
All you need to do is specify a path, or use . as the path. The dot signifies the current working directory. If I build a quick console application and run the commands above, I get the following output:
C:\dev\test\ConsoleApp1> dnu restore
Restoring packages for C:\dev\test\ConsoleApp1\src\ConsoleApp1\project.json
Writing lock file C:\dev\test\ConsoleApp1\src\ConsoleApp1\project.lock.json
Restore complete, 146ms elapsed
C:\dev\test\ConsoleApp1> dnx . run
Hello DNX
And that’s it. That’s the basics of DNX/DNVM/DNU.
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Of late I’ve been thinking about witches. Where they draw their powers, how they come to possess the powers and how they are able to use them. Because, if you really live in earth physically, you will have noticed that witches really do exist, even in the bible!! Saul went to a witch who could summon the spirit of a prophet of God (1 Samuel 28:11), and in the New Testament, Paul, who was Saul (funny coincidence…) rebuked an evil spirit from a girl who seemed too wise for her age and context (Acts 16:18).
This came at a period I didn’t have solid supporting evidence of how God can be an infinite mind, or how God really is connected to everything. I have always have had confidence in the believe that God is the soul. And humans that live on earth possess that part of God! And that is why am more inclined to make a rather solid conclusion that human are gods. God created gods. God wanted to be worshiped by beings that where very self-aware of their actions. And that is why he probably planted the tree of knowledge of good and evil where he created the first man. So, how is God connected to all this?? God is the resting place!! God is the infinite mind where everything existed, where everything rests, where everything lives, where everything still exists! And that is why, these terrestrial spirits need a soul, like the one God gave to humans, hence a person is needed for the powers of the spirits to work. That explains why God was able to create the universe with just a word of mouth, because He harbors the Holy Spirit, Who is actually seven very powerful spirits (Revelation 1:4; 3:1; 4:5; and 5:6).
See this, after you are preached to the gospel, you are told that you can receive the Holy Spirit. Does everyone receive it? No, we all agree on that! But it doesn’t mean that those who don’t receive it are less humans, or less capable of harboring a spirit! It only means that they are not completely self-conscious enough. If they received more knowledge, they start to understand and after continuous meditation, they start to become self-aware of their place, role and their part in creation, which leads to not necessarily receiving the Holy Spirit, but very high inner self importance.
In an occurrence that they receive the Holy Spirit, they start to prophesy, command nature, speak of things to come, and perform miracles. Why? Because they have possessed enough room in their mind to harbor the Holy Spirit, which now works through them! Partially, that proofs the existence of another form of life that can inhibit the other (non-breathers according to the book of Urantia), but that’s a talk of another day. (On page 564 The Urantia Book, it says: “Life on the worlds of the non-breathers is radically different from what it is on Urantia. The non- breathers do not eat food or drink water as do the Urantia races. The reactions of the nervous system, the heat-regulating mechanism, and the metabolism of these specialized peoples are radically different from such functions of Urantia mortals. Almost every act of living, aside from reproduction, differs, and even the methods of procreation are somewhat different.”)
So, I stand to be corrected but confident in the believe in the quote by a famous mathematician Kurt Godel of the 1970’s. Godel felt that through the principles of modal logic that a higher being must exist. He argued that, “God is that for which no greater can be conceived. And while God exists in the understanding of the concept, we could conceive of him as greater if he existed in reality. Therefore, he must exist.” What am I trying to say? Without God, there would be no such thing as space and time upon which everything depends on. Because God, through His infinite mind, which we successfully defined as a resting place for everything, hence an infinite basic foundation upon which everything exists, can never be consumed by the infinite ever growing time-space, without whom, space would not have a room to expand to! Science calls it God’s particle (Higgs boson or Higgs particle). It is the particle believed to give mass to things, hence matter. The particle’s existence helps confirm the theory that objects gain their size and shape when particles interact in an energy field with the Higgs boson particle. The more they attract, so the theory goes, the bigger their mass will be. Can you smell magnetism in that last line? Does magnetism hint something about gravity? Well, by now gravity should tell you something about unseen forces…terrestrial forces to be precise! You can also imagine earth as a single particle in space-time, attracted to a solar system, in a certain galaxy! By the way, no one have ever been able to confidently define magnetism, we can only predict the behavior of magnetism, and that’s the farthest we go as of understanding magnetism! (Read here: http://www.bermuda-triangle.org/the__triangle__machine_.html )
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