How to install .NET Core 1.0

Let’s prepare our development environment for .NET Core 1.0 on Windows platform. We have lot of options available to prepare development environments:

• Use Visual Studio 2015 with Update 3 using .NET Core 1.0.0 - VS 2015 Tooling Preview 2.
• Visual Studio Community using .NET Core 1.0.0 - VS 2015 Tooling Preview 2.
• Visual Studio Code with Command Line using .NET Core SDK for Windows.
• Any Editor with Command Line using .NET Core SDK for Windows.

Our Recommendations

We are going to use Visual Studio 2015 with Update 3 using .NET Core 1.0.0 - VS 2015 Tooling Preview 2. Please follow these steps:

• Download and install Visual Studio 2015 Update 3. Alternatively update through Extensions and Updates. For this open Tools Menu >> Extensions and Updates >> Updates >> Product Updates >> Visual Studio 2015 Update 3.
• Download and install NET Core 1.0.0 - VS 2015 Tooling Preview 2.

Visual Studio 2015 with Update 3

If you already have Visual Studio 2015 then you need to upgrade Visual studio 2015 with update 3. Please refer to following to download and to update https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=691129. We can also download trial version of Visual Studio 2015 from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48147.

Visual Studio Community

Visual Studio Community is a community supported IDE. We can download it from https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=691978&clcid=0x409 free of cost. Please refer to https://beta.visualstudio.com/free-developer-offers-vs/ for more details. And please refer to https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48146 for technical details.

Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code is a free open source and cross platform editor. We can download it from https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=691978&clcid=0x409 free of cost. Please refer to https://beta.visualstudio.com/free-developer-offers-vs/ for more details.

.NET Core 1.0.0 - VS 2015 Tooling Preview 2

.NET Core 1.0.0 - VS 2015 Tooling Preview 2 can be downloaded from https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=824849 free of cost.

Microsoft Official Repository

We can also follow official page https://www.microsoft.com/net/core to get more details, latest updates and other installers for Linux and Mac platforms.