Setting up your PC
For the projects in this book, we use Visual Studio 2019, .NET 5.0, and SQL Server 2019.
All of the projects are built using Visual Studio 2019 Community Edition version 16.9.5 with the ASP.NET and Web Development workload. If you need to install Visual Studio 2019, follow the directions in the Installing Visual Studio Community Edition section later in this chapter.
Tip
Although we are using Visual Studio 2019 Community Edition, any edition of Visual Studio 2019 can be used to complete the projects in this book. Microsoft Visual Studio Code can also be used.
Blazor WebAssembly in .NET 5 requires .NET 5.0. To check the version of .NET that is running on your computer, open the Command Prompt and enter the following command:
dotnet –-version
If your computer is not running .NET 5.0, follow the directions in the Installing .NET 5.0 section later in this chapter.
The final two projects in this book use SQL Server 2019 Express Edition as...