Technical warmup
Preparing the technical environment is necessary for those of you who want to reproduce the programming example. This section gives a few pointers on how to start, with a setup that is as simple as possible, and of course, using only free software in order for all of us to be able to follow along on our computers without any limitations due to costs or license restrictions.
The only two necessary tools are the following:
- .NET SDK 8.0 (released on November 14, 2023, which was right in time for the writing of this technical part of the book)
- Visual Studio Code (in the case of the author, version 1.84.2, but that does not really change anything) – the plugins for VS Code are optional; none are necessary to execute the following exercise
As the installation of these two applications does not need any particular competence, we will not provide any details here and will consider these prerequisites as installed and functional.