Chapter 2. Building your first .NET Core applications

This chapter covers

  • Installing the .NET Core SDK
  • Using the .NET CLI
  • Creating and executing a .NET Core application

In this chapter, you’ll learn how to set up your development environment, create an application, and deploy that application to another machine. You’ll start by installing the .NET Core SDK, which includes the .NET Command-Line Interface (CLI) that’s used throughout this book. From there, you’ll create a console application and an ASP.NET web application. Then you’ll deploy those applications.

Note for early adopters

If you’ve experimented with .NET Core in the past, you may have used DNVM, DNU, or DNX. Although these tools were useful in the beginning, they had ...

Get .NET Core in Action now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.