Much Awaited Release .NET Core 1.0 !!!
GETTING STARTED WITH .NET CORE To Start With : . NET Core 1.0 runs on Windows, Mac, and several flavors of Linux including RedHat Enterprise Linux and Ubuntu. It supports C#, VB, and F# and modern constructs like generics, Language Integrated Query (LINQ), async support and more. The Core Runtime, libraries, compiler, languages and tools are all open source on GitHub where contributions are accepted, tested and fully supported. If you use Visual Studio 2015 (and remember, Visual Studio Community is free !) you should get VS2015 Update 3 first then install the .NET Core Tools for Visual Studio . If you don't want to use VS, consider using Visual Studio Code for free and install the C# extension from the marketplace to get a great code editing experience along with the .NET Core SDK for Windows . Of course, if you're on Mac/Linux/Whatever, go over to http://dot.net and download whatever's right for you! If you want all the advanced and specific downloads for .NET