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Step 1: do you have the .NET SDK installed?
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If you don't have the SDK, download and install it.
Once you have the SDK installed:
- Open your terminal of choice and run
dotnet new console -n "MyAwesomeProject"
- run cd MyAwesomeProject
- Run dotnet run, which should display the text Hello, World!. If it does this, you've installed everything properly.
- Now run code ., or just open the MyAwesomeProject folder in VSCode.
- Congratulations! The folder contains two files: a Program.cs which is the file you'll be writing your code in, and a MyAwesomeProject.csproj file which is just some metadata about the project itself (which you don't need to worry about).
- Start editing Program.cs and do whatever you want.
- ???
- profitalr thanks, js one more question:
whats the best version of vscode rn that supports the sdk? i got 1.84.2 and i dont see a supported version
or am i tweaking
ah
C# Dev Kit - Visual Studio Marketplace
Extension for Visual Studio Code - Official C# extension from Microsoft
nevermind it's this one
Also, some notes about how C# works:
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Program.cs is the main file of your project, it contains the code that will be run first when you run your project.
- There can only be one file in the project directly containing statements (like Console.WriteLine) outside a class. You can have more than one file in your project obviously, but those have to contain classes and cannot directly contain code.
- If you want to some other piece of code to run when you run your project, you'll have to create a new project.
And lastly, $helloworld is a great start if you're looking for a more thorough tutorialalr thanks for the notes 💯🤝
imma have a long night of c# fr 😭
Yeah, it can be intimidating on how to start
It's a lot more complex to set up than something like Python or Javascript
yep i tried python and settled in pretty quickly cuz its really easy to read, doubt im gonna be as fast with this one tbh
just looking at basic c# code intimidates me lmao