Let’s prepare our development environment for .NET Core 1.0 on Windows platform. We have a lot of options available to prepare development environment.

  • Use Visual Studio 2015 with Update 3, using .NET Core 1.0.0 - VS 2015 Tooling Preview 2.
  • Visual Studio Community. using .NET Core 1.0.0 - VS 2015 Tooling Preview 2.
  • Visual Studio Code with Command Line, using .NET Core SDK for Windows.
  • Any Editor with Command Line using .NET Core SDK for Windows.

Our Recommendations

We are going to use Visual Studio 2015 with Update 3, using .NET Core 1.0.0 - VS 2015 Tooling Preview 2.

Please follow these steps.

  • Download and install Visual Studio 2015 Update 3. Alternatively, update through Extensions and Updates.
    For this, open Tools Menu >> Extensions and Updates >> Updates >> Product Updates >> Visual Studio 2015 Update 3.
  • Download and install NET Core 1.0.0 - VS 2015 Tooling Preview 2.

Visual Studio 2015 with Update 3

If you already have Visual Studio 2015, then you need to upgrade Visual studio 2015 with update 3. Please refer to the following link to download and update.
https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=691129.

We can also download the trial version of Visual Studio 2015 from here.

Visual Studio Community

Visual Studio Community is a community supported IDE. We can download it from https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=691978&clcid=0x409 free of cost.

Please refer to https://beta.visualstudio.com/free-developer-offers-vs/ for more details.

And, refer to https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48146 for technical details.

Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code is a free open source and cross platform editor. We can download it from https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=691978&clcid=0x409 free of cost.

Please refer to https://beta.visualstudio.com/free-developer-offers-vs/ for more details.

.NET Core 1.0.0 - VS 2015 Tooling Preview 2

.NET Core 1.0.0 - VS 2015 Tooling Preview 2 can be downloaded from https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=824849 free of cost.

Microsoft Official Repository

We can also follow the official page https://www.microsoft.com/net/core to get more details, latest updates, and other installers for Linux and Mac platforms.