How I started .NET Core, C# using VS Code on Ubuntu

Thought to share my experience on .NET Core with VS Code

.NET Core is a free and open-source, managed computer software framework for Windows, Linux, and macOS operating systems. It is a cross-platform successor to .NET Framework.

Highlevel tasks...

• Install Ubuntu in my laptop
• Install VS Code
• Insall .NET sdk, core
• Install Git
• I used CLI to create solution, projects
• Finally commit to GitHub

In detailed

Install Ubuntu in my laptop

I follwed below links from official ubunu website, these are very simple steps to follow.

Create USB bootable disk

https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/tutorial-create-a-usb-stick-on-windows#10-installation-complete

Install ubuntu using USB stick.

https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/tutorial-install-ubuntu-desktop#1-overview

Install VS Code

Install VS code using below command

sudo apt-get install code

Beofe doing that it is good to udpate the local repository packages using below command

sudo apt-get update

Insall .NET sdk, core

If using a Debian flavor of Linux like Ubuntu, run the below wget command to download the DEB archive first

wget -q https://packages.microsoft.com/config/ubuntu/19.04/packages-microsoft-prod.deb -O packages-microsoft-prod.deb

Once finsih downloading, run the below command from the same directory as the .deb package to install .NET Core:

sudo dpkg -i packages-microsoft-prod.deb

Now install .NET sdk using below command

sudo apt-get install dotnet-sdk-3.1

Install Git

Use below command to install Git

sudo apt-get install git

I used CLI to create solution, projects

Once.NET core is installed you should have access to a command-line tools you can invoke in the terminal called dotnet. You can easily see what commands are available by typing:

dotnet - -help

Also you can refer link for more details on CLI https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/

Create Solution A solution is something we use to keep track of all related projects.

1. Create directory for our solution

mkdir dotNetCoreApps cd dotNetCoreApps

2. Below command will create solution

dot net new sln

3. Create Console application and name it as HelloWorld-app

dotnet new console -o HelloWorld-app

4. add the project to the solution file

dotnet sln add HelloWorld-app/HelloWorld-app.csproj

5. Write the code for the project (can check my code)
6. buid the solution using below code

dotnet build

7. run the project

dotnet run HelloWorld-app/HelloWorld-app.csproj

Finally commit to GitHub

Can use below commands to commit to GitHub

git init

git add README.md

git commit -m "first commit"

git remote add origin https://github.com/<< your user-id>>/your- repo .git

git push -u origin master

I'm not familiar with Ubuntu / VS code, I'm learning so you can always correct me if any of the above information is not correct.

Thank you