Practicing and exploring

Let’s now test your knowledge and understanding by trying to answer some questions, getting some hands-on practice, and going into the topics covered throughout this chapter in greater detail.

Exercise 1.1 – Test your knowledge

Try to answer the following questions, remembering that although most answers can be found in this chapter, you should do some online research or code writing to answer others:

1. Is Visual Studio 2022 better than Visual Studio Code?
2. Is .NET 5 and later better than .NET Framework?
3. What is .NET Standard and why is it still important?
4. Why can a programmer use different languages, for example, C# and F#, to write applications that run on .NET?
5. What is a top-level program and how do you access any command-line arguments?
6. What is the name of the entry point method of a .NET console app and how should it be explicitly declared if you are not using the top-level program feature?
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