Setting up machine for asp.net core development

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In this video we will install the required software and set up our machine for .NET Core development.

There are 2 softwares that we need to install for .net core application development.

• An Editor
• .NET Core SDK (Software Development Kit)

Download and Install an editor for .NET Core Development

I have windows operating system, so, I will be using Visual Studio as the editor for .NET Core application development. You can use any editor of your choice. 

• Visual Studio
• Visual Studio Code
• Sublime
• Vim
• Atom
• Etc.

Download and install Visual Studio

• Visual Studio Community Edition is free
• As of this recording the latest version is Visual Studio 2017 and can be downloaded from https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/
• To develop .NET Core applications in Visual Studio 2017, please select .NET Core cross-platform development workload
  
• With this selection, .NET Core SDK 2.1 is installed
• You can verify this by creating a new .NET Core Application
• Notice, in the .NET Core Dropdownlist we only have ASP.NET Core 2.1
• As of this recording, the latest stable version of .NET Core is 2.2

Download and install .NET Core SDK 

• Navigate to https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download
• Depending on the operating system you have, download and install the SDK.
• The SDK includes everything you need to build and run .NET core applications.
• The .NET Core Runtime is already included in the SDK. So, if you have installed the SDK, there is no need to install .NET Core Runtime 
• The .NET Core Runtime includes just the resources required to run existing .NET Core applications.

After .NET Core SDK 2.2 is installed, create a new .NET Core Application. Notice, in the .NET Core Dropdownlist, we now have ASP.NET Core 2.2 in addition to ASP.NET Core 2.1.



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