Getting Start with Dotnet

Resources

Getting started

Follow resources [3] and [4] for getting installation going (installation example above is for MacOS).

Afterwards, run dotnet to confirm things are working. If nothing happens after installation, ensure you have followed resource [4] to symlink the installation to your path (or add the folder to path).

Creating a Console App

We simply run the following to start a new console app.

The following creates new app of type console into the myApp folder:

dotnet new console -o myApp
cd myApp
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The above code will also generate a file named Program.cs into myApp, along with myApp.csproj config for library usage and an obj folder.

// Program.cs
using System;

namespace myApp
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Hello World!");
        }
    }
}
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If we now fire dotnet run from the command line, we will see our Hello World! response. Hooray!

Moving further, we could add more lines into our Main program like Console.WriteLine("The current time is " + DateTime.Now); to update what we get.

Creating a Web application

The following initialises a web application in the folder myWebApp:

# note that we are specifying not to enable https in this particular instance
dotnet new webApp -o myWebApp --no-https
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Several files were created in the myWebApp directory, to give you a simple web application that is ready to run.

If we run dotnet run we will have a local development environment open up at port 5000.

Updating the code in the application

Editing Pages/Index.cshtml with the following will edit the application to show the server time:

@page
@model IndexModel
@{
    ViewData["Title"] = "Home page";
}

<div class="text-center">
    <h1>Hello, world!</h1>
    <p>The time on the server is @DateTime.Now</p>
</div>
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