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Hello, C#! Welcome, .NET!

In this first chapter, the goals are setting up your development environment, understanding the similarities and differences between modern .NET, .NET Core, .NET Framework, Mono, Xamarin, and .NET Standard, creating the simplest application possible with C# 10 and .NET 6 using various code editors, and then discovering good places to look for help.

The GitHub repository for this book has solutions using full application projects for all code tasks and notebooks when possible:

https://github.com/markjprice/cs10dotnet6

Simply press the . (dot) key or change .com to .dev in the link above to change the GitHub repository into a live editor using Visual Studio Code for the Web, as shown in Figure 1.1:

Figure 1.1: Visual ...

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