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Introducing Tools and Skills for .NET
In this first chapter, the goals are understanding the tools and skills that you will learn in this book, setting up your development environment to use Visual Studio 2022, Visual Studio Code, or JetBrains Rider, and then setting up a database and projects to use in the rest of the chapters. Throughout this book, I will use the names Visual Studio, Code, and Rider to refer to these three code editors respectively.
I use the term modern .NET to refer to .NET 8 and its predecessors like .NET 6, which derive from .NET Core. I use the term legacy .NET to refer to .NET Framework, Mono, Xamarin, and .NET Standard. Modern .NET is a unification of those legacy platforms and standards.
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