Documentation:WSL Windows subsystem for Linux

To get started with Linux you may use WSL that is the Windows SubSystem for Linux that is built into Windows10.

Make sure you have the feature on ; Turn windows features on or off -> Windows Subsystem for Linux

Once you have it on you need a Linux install; we use Ubuntu (20.10 at the time of writing)

wget https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/20.10/packages-microsoft-prod.deb -O packages-microsoft-prod.deb
sudo dpkg -i packages-microsoft-prod.deb

You then install .net core (we use .net core 3.1)

sudo apt-get update; \  
  sudo apt-get install -y apt-transport-https && \
  sudo apt-get update && \
  sudo apt-get install -y dotnet-sdk-3.1

This is a good overview: https://weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2017/apr/13/running-net-core-apps-under-windows-subsystem-for-linux-bash-for-windows

Remember that your c disk is found here  /mnt/c/

Build MDrivenServer

You need to register a nuget package source to find the VistaDB packages not available on nuget site, this is needed only once:

sudo dotnet nuget add source /mnt/c/capableobjectswush/Xternal/VistaDB --name  XternatVistaDB    

Build the a sln; navigate to the directory, then:

sudo dotnet build

To start MDrivenServer project, navigate to directory:

sudo dotnet run -port=5001 -nohttps