Pro C# 7: With .NET and .NET Core

© Andrew Troelsen and Philip Japikse 2017

Andrew Troelsen and Philip Japikse, Pro C# 7, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3018-3_2

2. Building C# Applications

Andrew Troelsen¹  and Philip Japikse²

(1)Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

(2)West Chester, Ohio, USA

As a C# programmer, you can choose from among numerous tools to build .NET applications. The tool (or tools) you select will be based primarily on three factors: any associated costs, the OS you are using to develop the software, and the computing platforms you are targeting. The point of this chapter is to provide a survey of the most common integrated development environments (IDEs) that support the C# language. Do understand that this chapter will not go over every single detail of each IDE; it ...