ASP.NET Core applications can be developed in Visual Studio, similarly to an MVC 5 project. However, to demonstrate the new addition of the CLI, we will use the Visual Studio Code text editor in this tutorial, although any text editor will suffice.
If you do not have it installed, download the .NET Core SDK.
Check that it is installed correctly by typing this into your command line:
dotnet --info
This should return the information about the version of the SDK, the runtime environment, and the .NET Core version.
.NET Command Line Tools (2.1.4)
Product Information:
Version: 2.1.4
Commit SHA-1 hash: 5e8add2190
Runtime Environment:
OS Name: Windows
OS Version: 10.0.16299
OS Platform: Windows
RID: win10-x64
Base Path: C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\2.1.4\
Microsoft .NET Core Shared Framework Host
Version : 2.0.5
Build : 17373eb129b3b05aa18ece963f8795d65ef8ea54
If you encountered an error - you either installed it incorrectly, or it did not get added to your environment variables. See solution here.
SQL Server Management Studio
If you're working in Visual Studio, this is optional. If you are working on a Mac or Linux, or you don't want to install SQL Server Management Studio - try the VS Code mssql extension.
