The following tutorials show how to develop console apps and libraries for .NET Core, .NET 5, and later versions. For other types of applications, seeTutorials for getting started with .NET.

Use Visual Studio

• Create a console app
• Debug an app
• Publish an app
• Create a class library
• Unit test a class library
• Install and use a package
• Create and publish a package
• Create an F# console app

Use Visual Studio Code

Choose these tutorials if you want to use Visual Studio Code or another code editor. All of them use the CLI for .NET Core development tasks, so all except the debugging tutorial can be used with any code editor.

• Create a console app
• Debug an app
• Publish an app
• Create a class library
• Unit test a class library
• Install and use a package
• Create and publish a package
• Create an F# console app

Advanced articles

• How to create libraries
• Unit test an app with xUnit
• Unit test using C#/VB/F# with NUnit/xUnit/MSTest
• Live unit test with Visual Studio
• Create templates for the CLI
• Create and use tools for the CLI
• Create an app with plugins