We kicked off the .NET Summer Hackfest with the goal of porting our existing Keen IO .NET SDK to .NET Standard 2.0, and I’m excited to say that we just about accomplished our goal! Our entire SDK, unit tests, and CI builds have been converted to run cross-platform on .NET Standard. All there is left to do is a little bit of clean up and some documentation updates that are in the works.
There are some big benefits to adopting .NET Standard 2.0, here are some highlights:
- The Keen .NET SDK can be used with .NET Core, which means it can be included in apps deployed on Linux, Mac OS, and cool stuff like Raspberry Pi
- Mono-based projects will be officially supported in their next version, which may or may not have worked before, but now it’ll for sure work. This also means Unity can use the new .NET Standard library!
- We can multi-target and to reduce the size of the codebase and complexity
- All the Xamarin variations will be supported in their next version
Everyone who contributed during this event was open, collaborative, and ready to learn and teach. We were very happy to be a part of this and look forward to future ‘hackfests’.
I’d like to give a special shoutout to and thank our community contributors that jumped in on the project: Doni Ivanov & Tarun Pothulapati
I’d also like to thank Justin & Brian from our team, Jon & Immo from Microsoft, & Microsoft MVP Oren for all their work and support during our two week sprint.
