Building console apps using Visual Studio Code

The goal of this section is to showcase how to build a console app using Visual Studio Code and the dotnet command-line interface (CLI).

If you never want to try Visual Studio Code or .NET Interactive Notebooks, then please feel free to skip this section and the next, and then continue with the Reviewing the folders and files for projects section.

Both the instructions and screenshots in this section are for Windows, but the same actions will work with Visual Studio Code on the macOS and Linux variants.

The main differences will be native command-line actions such as deleting a file: both the command and the path are likely to be different on Windows or macOS and Linux. Luckily, the dotnet CLI tool is identical on all platforms.

Managing multiple projects using Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code has a concept named a workspace that allows you to open and manage multiple projects simultaneously. We will use a workspace...