What you need for this book

You will need a development environment to follow the code examples in this book, either Visual Studio Community 2015 or Visual Studio Code if you're not on Windows. You can also use your text editor of choice and the dotnet command line tool. If you use Visual Studio, then you should also install the .NET Core SDK and tooling and the latest NuGet extension.

For some of the chapters, you will also need SQL Server 2014 Express. You can use 2016 too, particularly if you are on Linux. However, you can 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 uploaded along with the code files.