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.