Setting up your development environment
In this book, the focus will be on Windows development and any screenshots are going to be from Visual Studio (unless stated otherwise). But since .NET 5 is cross-platform, we will go through how to set up your development environment on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
The go-to link for all the platforms can be found at https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/.
From the web page, we can download Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, or Visual Studio for Mac.
Windows
On Windows, we have many different options for developing Blazor applications. Visual Studio 2019 is the most powerful tool we can use.
There are three different editions, which are as follows:
- Community 2019
- Professional 2019
- Enterprise 2019
In short, the Community Edition is free while the others cost money. The Community Edition does have some limitations and we can compare the different editions here: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/compare/.
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