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Systems Programming with C# and .NET

You're reading from   Systems Programming with C# and .NET Building robust system solutions with C# 12 and .NET 8

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835082683
Length 474 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dennis Vroegop Dennis Vroegop
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Preface 1. Overview of Systems Programming FREE CHAPTER 2. Chapter 1: The One with the Low-Level Secrets 3. Chapter 2: The One Where Speed Matters 4. Chapter 3: The One with the Memory Games 5. Chapter 4: The One with the Thread Tangles 6. Chapter 5: The One with the Filesystem Chronicles 7. Chapter 6: The One Where Processes Whisper 8. Chapter 7: The One with the Operating System Tango 9. Chapter 8: The One with the Network Navigation 10. Chapter 9: The One with the Hardware Handshakes 11. Chapter 10: The One with the Systems Check-Ups 12. Chapter 11: The One with the Debugging Dances 13. Chapter 12: The One with the Security Safeguards 14. Chapter 13: The One with the Deployment Dramas 15. Chapter 14: The One with the Linux Leaps 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Developing for Linux

One of the first pieces of software written for Linux was GCC, created in 1991. GCC is the Gnu C Compiler, and it was used to build a lot of the software that became part of the first distro later on. You can still use GCC if you want to, but today, there are many other development tools available to use. For instance, Python is part of most distros. So, if you want to use Python, you can type the python3 command into the terminal, and you are ready to go. But we do not do Python; we do .NET. And that means we have another road to take.

Installing .NET on Linux

I mentioned previously that Linux usually has a lot of development tools pre-installed. However, .NET is not one of those pre-installed environments. The good news is that it is not hard to install.

Before I tell you how to get .NET on the system, I want to discuss my choice of development machines.

I love Visual Studio. I think it is by far the best IDE available. There are others, and I know...

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