C# 6 and .NET Core 1.0: Modern Cross-Platform Development

Building a console application

To test the installation, let's make a simple console application that outputs Hello C# running cross-platform!.

Creating the source files

We need to enter some commands in the Terminal prompt to:

• Create a new directory named ConsoleApp and change to it
• Create two files named program.cs and project.json
• Start Visual Studio Code so that we can edit the files in an IDE

Here are the commands to enter:

mkdir ConsoleApp
cd ConsoleApp
touch program.cs
touch project.json
code .

Editing the code

In Visual Studio Code, click on the program.cs file on the left-hand side and then enter these statements:

using static System.Console; public class Program { public static void Main() { WriteLine("Hello C#, running cross-platform!"); } ...