Technical requirements

This chapter contains various code examples to explain these concepts. The code is kept simple and is just for demonstration purposes. Most of the examples involve a .NET Core console application written in C#.

To run and execute the code, you will need the following:

• Visual Studio 2019 (you can also run the application using Visual Studio 2017 version 3 or later)
• .NET Core
• SQL Server (the Express Edition is used in this chapter)

Installing Visual Studio

In order to run these code examples, you will need to install Visual Studio or later (you can also use your preferred IDE). To do this, follow these instructions:

1. Download Visual Studio from the following link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio...