IDE for Building C# Applications

If .NET Core or .NET Framework are installed on PC, simple editor like Notepad is enough to build and RUN the C# application. But it needs lot of manual setups and steps. Which is not an easy task for the a beginner. It is not only difficult but also waste lot of time.

But Microsoft provides two one of the most wonderful and beautiful IDEs for building .NET applications. These are lovable and most perfect IDEs around the software development world. These includes Visual Studio Code and Microsoft Visual Studio IDE.

Both IDEs can be easily downloaded from the official website https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/

1. Visual Studio Code.

Visual Studio Code is a lightweight but powerful source code editor which runs on your desktop and is available for Windows, macOS and Linux. It comes with built-in support for JavaScript, TypeScript and Node.js and has a rich ecosystem of extensions for other languages (such as C++, C#, Java, Python, PHP, Go) and runtimes (such as .NET and Unity)

1. Visual Studio IDE 2019.

Latest reslease of the Visual Studio IDE is 2019 hence called as Visual Studio 2019. Visual Studio 2019 is wonderful and complete IDE for building any kind of the application using .NET. VS 2019 is a full-featured integrated development environment (IDE) for Android, iOS, Windows, web, and cloud.

There are three version of the VS 2019 called Community,Professional, and Enterprise.These are avaialbe at https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/

In this tutorial we will use Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code for demonstrations of the Examples for the better understanding of the C# as a Language.