Getting Started With .NET Core And Visual Studio Code

Please download and use the SDK from here.

Once the SDK is downloaded, follow the below steps.

Step 1. Double-click the downloaded file.

Step 2. Click on the "Install" button.

Step 3. In the Permission pop-up, click "Yes".

Step 4. Then, you will see a process window like below.

Step 5. The highlighted things are installed on your machine.

That’s it. You have successfully installed .NET Core on your machine. To ensure that the SDK is successfully installed or not, open your command prompt and type the below command.

dotnet –version

If it is successfully installed on your machine, you will get the following output for version 2.1.502.

Creating a Simple Console Application

Step 1. Open Visual Studio Code or command prompt on your machine.

Step 2. After opening the Command Prompt, change your working path using the cd command.

Step 3. Next, we are creating a simple console application using the below command.

/dotnet new console -o "MyFirstConsoleApplication"

Note. Here, MyFirstConsoleApplication is the project name.

After creating the console application, you will get the following output.

Step 4. Next, if we need to open the console application's source code on Visual Studio Code Editor, we can use the below command.

/code ./MyFirstConsoleApplication

After hitting Enter, it automatically opens the project's source code in Visual Studio Code.

Output Screen

Step 5. Next, we run the application in the terminal using the following command.

dotnet run

Finally, we have successfully installed .NET Core and created a simple console application in .NET Core.