This chapter will provide guidelines to do some hands-on work. To follow up with that, you will need to have the following tools:

• .NET Core 2 or higher (https://www.asp.net/)
• Visual Studio 2017 or higher (https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/), or JetBrains Rider (https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/)

There is no particular requirement on a platform since .NET Core, and the tooling is available almost everywhere. Throughout this book, I will be using Rider on macOS. Initial screenshots will be from Visual Studio 2017 for Windows since most readers would be using this IDE. Some dialog boxes are significantly different between Visual Studio for Windows, Visual Studio for Mac and Rider.