Technical requirements
This chapter includes short code snippets to demonstrate the concepts that are explained. The following software is required:
- Visual Studio 2019: Visual Studio can be downloaded from https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/community/. The Community edition is free and will work for the purposes of this book.
- .NET 5: The .NET framework can be downloaded from https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download.
Make sure you download the SDK and not just the runtime. You can verify the installation by opening a command prompt and running the dotnet --info
cmd as shown in Figure 9.1:
As part of this chapter, we will install Docker. This may require some additional setup depending on whether you are using Windows 10 or Mac. The installation instructions in the Installing Docker section are written for Windows 10. In addition to the instructions we provide in the chapter, please use...