To get the most out of this book

The assumption is that you will have a good understanding of C# 6.0 at least. All the examples in this book will make use of C# 7 where relevant.

You will need to have Visual Studio 2017 installed with the latest patch. If you do not have Visual Studio 2017, you can install Visual Studio Community 2017 for free from https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/.

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