appendix A. Development environment setup
This appendix describes how to set up a development environment for working with the code you write throughout this book. The development environment has five parts:
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An IDE —You can choose between using Visual Studio 2019 or newer, Visual Studio Code (VS Code for short), or JetBrains Rider. Visual Studio is Windows-only, whereas Visual Studio Code and JetBrains Rider both work on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
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dotnet cli —You need the dotnet command-line tool to build create, build, and run .NET projects from the command line.
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REST client —You need a tool for making HTTP requests. There are many such tools, including cURL, Fiddler, and Postman; I tend to use the REST client plug-in for Visual Studio ...
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