Hello, C#! Welcome, .NET!
In this first chapter, the first goal is setting up your development environment to use Visual Studio 2022, Visual Studio Code, or JetBrains Rider.
Throughout this book, I will use the names Visual Studio, VS Code, and Rider to refer to these three code editors, respectively.
The other goals are understanding the similarities and differences between modern .NET, .NET Core, .NET Framework, Mono, Xamarin, and .NET Standard; creating the simplest application possible with C# 13 and .NET 9, using various code editors; and then discovering good places to look for help.
My style of writing ensures that you can get started from my book and then switch to online documentation and other online resources, like videos, blogs, and forums, which are the main ways that developers like to learn, as shown at the following link: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/developer-profile#learning-to-code.
This chapter covers the following topics:
- Introducing this book and its contents
- Setting up your development environment
- Understanding .NET
- Building console apps using Visual Studio
- Building console apps using VS Code
- Making good use of the GitHub repository for this book
- Looking for help
