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C#

Posted by SC3 Rocks
SC3 Rocks
33,474 Points

Where could I make my application using the C# language?

Hi, I'm not sure if I should ask it here or not, but I would like to know where would be a good place for me to start developing my own application using the C# language - Maybe I've missed it, but TeamTreehouse doesn't ever seem to offer a platform outside of their workspace to build your own stuff (ex: Sublime Text for building websites) - So, I would appreciate someone's assistance on that - Thank you...

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Edward Ries
Edward Ries
7,388 Points
Edward Ries
Edward Ries
7,388 Points

If you don't already have Visual Studio then get the Visual Studio Community Edition. It's free and 95% of the features that the higher end version offer. As for hosting there are numerous web hosts. I've used www.1and1.com before. It's decent but not great but the cost is very low. There sites says they would host for as little as 99 cents a month. WinHost.com is pretty good host but the cost is around $5 per month for a basic site. Microsoft Azure is great place to host a site but you really need to understand the costs but they will give you a bunch of credit for the first 30 days to get used to it. Go Daddy is very popular for hosting as well.

If you have an MSDN account then you'll get Microsoft Azure Credits and you'll have access to Visual Studio Online which is a TFS respository that can deploy directly to Azure.

As I mentioned before there are a lot of places to host. One of the things that I've come across is some hosts doesn't allow direct access to there SQL databases which can make managing the database more difficult. 1and1.com is one of those sites. You have to use their web tool for designing your database or I believe you can do it locally and then upload your database.