Introducing Apps and Services with .NET
In this first chapter, the goals are setting up your development environment to use Visual Studio 2022 and Visual Studio Code, reviewing what is new with C# 8 up to C# 11 and what is new with .NET Core 3.1 up to .NET 7, and understanding your choices for building apps and services. Finally, we will review good places to look for help.
The GitHub repository for this book has solutions using full application projects for all code tasks:
https://github.com/markjprice/apps-services-net7/
After going to the GitHub repository, simply press the . (dot) key or change .com
to .dev
to change the repository into a live code editor based on Visual Studio Code using GitHub Codespaces.
Visual Studio Code in a web browser is great to run alongside your chosen code editor as you work through the book’s coding tasks. You can compare your code to the solution code and easily copy and paste parts if needed.
Throughout this book, I use...