Technical requirements
This chapter requires that you have the following:
- Visual Studio 2022 free Community edition or better, with all the database tools components installed.
- A free Azure account. The Creating an Azure account subsection in Chapter 1, Understanding the Importance of Software Architecture, explains how to create one.
- For a better development experience, we advise that you also install the local emulator of Cosmos DB, which can be found at https://aka.ms/cosmosdb-emulator
- You can find the sample code for the chapter at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Software-Architecture-with-C-10-and-.NET-6-3E