What you need for this book

You will need a development environment to follow the code examples in this book—Visual Studio 2017, Visual Studio Mac, or VS Code. You could also use your text editor of choice and the dotnet command-line tool. If you're using Visual Studio, then you should still install the latest .NET Core SDK to enable the tooling.

For some of the chapters, you will also need SQL Server 2016, although you could use 2017. However, you could also use Azure and run against a cloud database.

There are other tools that we will cover, but we will introduce these as they are used. The detailed software/hardware list is available along with the code files.