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How YOU can get started with .NET Core and C# in VS Code

Chris Noring on July 17, 2019

Follow me on Twitter, happy to take your suggestions on topics or improvements /Chris This article covers your first steps using .NET Core, the c...

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Carlos Kidman • Jul 19 '19 • Edited

Great article! I have completely switched to using VS Code for C# and I love it! I also made a C# extension called PackSharp to help with project templates, packages, and references. Check it out!

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Chris Noring • Jul 19 '19

Thanks Carlos. Appreciate the link to PackSharp

Fyodor • Jul 24 '19 • Edited

Thanks, Chris! This is my first dive into .NET, wanted to see it from the command line perspective, not just IDE-way. It's a very comprehensive article and covers all that's necessary.

Just a couple of moments:

1) looks like there's small name mismatch in the paragraph dedicated to console app:

2) it would we very useful to add some kind of excerpt from official documentation on how to generate these vscode-specific build/deploy assets (I hadn't got them by default for some reason):

Chris Noring • Jul 24 '19

Hi Fyodor. 1) let me investigate 2) Didn't know about that one thanks :) I'll make sure to add some info on that

Jesse Loftus • Jul 19 '19

Great article, thank you! This is exactly what I was looking for and I hadn't even started looking yet!

I was thinking earlier this week about moving to VS Code for my dotnet development. I'll take your article as a sign

Chris Noring • Jul 19 '19

Thank you Jesse. Great to hear that. Let me know if there is something special you are looking to hear more about in the .NET space.

Tomas Mūžas • Jul 19 '19

Very nice and extensive article! I really like tutorials that fail intentionally (as is in your test project), it shows that code does not always works flawlessly right from the start, which is good for new programmers