I’ve been wanting to write a sample for AWS Data Exchange in .NET. Been a while since I’ve written any C# code. Last time I used VirtualBox to run Windows. This time, I went the route of Amazon Workspaces, which quickly gave me a Windows desktop, and as I was in the middle of figuring out how to get Administrator privileges on it to install the .NET SDK, and while I was downloading Visual Studio, one of my colleagues asked “Why Windows?”. I couldn’t come up with a good answer, so I re-did this on my Mac in about ten minutes, no special privileges required. This should work on any *nix, too.
Download and install .NET SDK using the install script.
$ wget https://dot.net/v1/dotnet-install.sh
$ chmod 700 dotnet-install.sh
$ ./dotnet-install.sh --install-dir ~/Library/DotNet
dotnet-install: Downloading link: https://dotnetcli.azureedge.net/dotnet/Sdk/3.1.100/dotnet-sdk-3.1.100-osx-x64.tar.gz
dotnet-install: Extracting zip from https://dotnetcli.azureedge.net/dotnet/Sdk/3.1.100/dotnet-sdk-3.1.100-osx-x64.tar.gz
dotnet-install: Installation finished successfully.
Add .NET to PATH, edit ~/.bash_profile.
# Add .NET to PATH
export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/Library/DotNet"
Create a new console app.
$ dotnet new console --name AwsDataExchangeSample
$ cd AwsDataExchangeSample
Add the AWS Data Exchange SDK from Nuget.
$ dotnet add package AWSSDK.DataExchange --version 3.3.100.15
Modify the code, run the app.
$ dotnet run Program.cs