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Setting up your development environment

Before you start programming, you will need to choose an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that includes a code editor for C#. Microsoft has a family of IDEs:

Visual Studio 2017
Visual Studio for Mac
Visual Studio Code

The most mature and fully-featured IDE to choose is Microsoft Visual Studio 2017, but it only runs on the Windows operating system.

The most modern and lightweight IDE to choose, and the only one from Microsoft that is cross-platform, is Microsoft Visual Studio Code, and it will run on all common operating systems, including Windows, macOS, and many varieties of Linux, such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Ubuntu.

To help you decide if Visual Studio Code is right for you, ...

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