The instructions and screenshots in this section are for macOS, but the same actions will work with Visual Studio Code on either Windows or Linux. The main differences will be native command-line actions such as deleting a file: both the command and the path are likely to be different. The dotnet
CLI tool will be identical on all platforms.
Navigate to File
| Open...
, or press Cmd + O.
In the dialog, open the Code
folder, select the Chapter01
folder, click on the New Folder
button, enter the name WelcomeDotNetCore
, and click on Create
. Select the WelcomeDotNetCore
folder, and click on Open
or press Enter.
In Visual Studio Code, navigate to View
| Integrated Terminal
, or press Ctrl + `.
At the TERMINAL
prompt, enter the following command:
dotnet new console
You will see that the dotnet
command-line tool creates a new console application project for you in the current folder, and the Explorer
window shows the two files created, as shown in the following screenshot:
In the EXPLORER
window, click on the file named Program.cs
to open it in the editor window.
If you see the warnings mentioning that the required assets are missing, click on Yes
, as shown in the following screenshot:
Modify the text that is being written to the console to say, Welcome, .NET Core!
Navigate to File
| Auto Save
. This toggle will save the annoyance of remembering to save before rebuilding your application each time!
Navigate to View
| Integrated Terminal
or press Ctrl + `, and enter the following command:
dotnet run
The output in the TERMINAL
window will show the result of running your application.
In Visual Studio Code, navigate to File |
Open
, and open the Chapter01
folder.
In Explorer
, expand HelloCS
, and select MyApp.cs
.
Click on Yes
, when prompted to add required assets.
In Visual Studio Code, either right-click and choose Format Document
, or press Alt + Shift + F, as shown in the following screenshot:
Visual Studio Code is rapidly approaching feature parity with Visual Studio 2017 on Windows.