Environment Requirements

Supported Editors

• Visual Studio 2022+
• VS Code Latest Version
• JetBrains Rider
• All other editors that support C# compilation

.NET SDK

• The current NCF template, the NcfPackageSources simulated site, and the XNCF template use .NET 10 as their development baseline. Download the SDK from https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet/10.0.
• For an older NCF release or NuGet package, follow that release tag and the TargetFramework in its project file instead of applying old tutorials to the current source tree.

Database

• NCF supports multiple databases, currently supported are: SQLite, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSql, Oracle, DM (Dameng), we will also support more databases, including:
  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • DB2
  • More databases are welcome to tell us: Post

The default database ORM framework is Entity Framework Core (EF Core).

Note:

1. If using EF Core - SQL Server, you need to use SQL Server 2012 or above version database
   
2. We provide two sets of configuration methods for Oracle for V11 and V12+, please choose according to the version you are using.

Operating System

Currently, .NET Core already supports almost all mainstream operating systems:

• Windows
• Linux
• macOS
• Android
• iOS/tvOS/MacCatalyst
• QEMU
• Other supported operating systems: See the .NET 10 support policy

Install to server: https://docs.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/install/

CPU Architecture

• X86
• x64
• ARM32
• ARM64
• Other supported CPU architectures: See the .NET 10 support policy

Source Code

• During the development of NCF, you can use the "NCF Template" project as the base project (100% open source), and run it without modifying any code. Further development can be done on this basis. Source code: https://github.com/NeuCharFramework/NCF
• Behind the "NCF Template", there is a whole set of base libraries support (also 100% open source). If you need to view, debug, or modify the base package source code, please see this project: https://github.com/NeuCharFramework/NcfPackageSources