Setting up a .NET development environment
This tutorial shows how to prepare your local machine for
developing .NET
and
.NET core
apps that run on Trusted Cloud by S3NS and call
Trusted Cloud APIs.
Install a development environment
The recommended development environment for running the .NET tutorials and
sample apps in this documentation is
Visual Studio
or
Visual Studio Code.
Create a Trusted Cloud project
Create a Trusted Cloud project
to run your apps. Trusted Cloud projects form the basis for creating,
enabling, and using all Trusted Cloud services.
Set up authentication
Your .NET app must authenticate itself to use Trusted Cloud APIs. You use
Application Default Credentials (ADC),
which let you provide credentials for either local development or in a
production environment.
Create local authentication credentials for your user account:
gcloud auth application-default login
If an authentication error is returned, and you are using an external identity provider
(IdP), confirm that you have
signed in to the gcloud CLI with your federated identity.
For more information, see
Authenticate for using client libraries.
For general information about authentication, see
Authentication at Google.
Even though you can create and manage Trusted Cloud resources via your web
browser using the
Trusted Cloud console,
if you'd prefer to manage your Trusted Cloud resources from within
Visual Studio or from the command-line, you can consider installing the
following tools:
Google Cloud CLI:
The gcloud CLI is a command-line interface for Trusted Cloud
products and services.
Tools for Visual Studio:
Tools for Visual Studio enables development in Visual Studio on
Trusted Cloud.
Tools for PowerShell:
Tools for PowerShell is a set of cmdlets for Windows PowerShell
that lets you manage Trusted Cloud resources.
What's next
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Last updated 2025-08-28 UTC.
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