Console Dot Net core getting started guide is unclear

[roa-nyx]

https://miniprofiler.com/dotnet/ConsoleDotNetCore

There are two console examples one for ConsoleDotNet and another for ConsoleDotNetCore. One instructs you to install MiniProfiler and the DotNetCore instructs you to install MiniProfiler.AspNetCore.

I feel like either this is a mistake? Or if it's not that it needs to be explicitly called out as to why for DotNetCore you need to use a package labeled for AspNet in a console application.

[NickCraver]

The example is correct - there is no .NET Core packages (because it's just too many packages). You could use MiniProfiler.Shared and do some manual bits, but thus far profiling console applications is rare enough that another package of packages and dependencies between .Shared and .AspNetCore isn't really warranted.

For what it's worth, MiniProfiler simple pre-dates .NET Core by many years. If it didn't exist back then, it'd have been called MiniProfiler.AspNet today. It retains the MiniProfiler name for ease of user upgrades. It is an ASP.NET with those bits just like MiniProfiler.AspNetCore is, though.

[roa-nyx]

Gotcha. Do you think it maybe it'd be good to have that explicitly called out in the .net core example? That even though it's a console example you still need to reference the AspNetCore package?

[NickCraver]

Yeah sure, if that would help clarify things I'm all for it...that's the entire point of the samples after all :)