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Starting in C# 9, you don't have to explicitly include a Main method in a console application project. Instead, you can use the top-level statements feature to minimize the code you have to write. In this case, the compiler generates a class and Main method entry point for the application.

See Microsoft docs: Top-level statements

Included projects

• BasicConsoleApp demonstrates a basic top-level console project
• BasicUsingInternalClassesApp demonstrates accessing functionality with classes in the same project.
• BasicEntityFrameworkCoreApp provides a simple read from a SQL-Server database using Entity Framework Core
• BasicConsoleWithLocalSwitchApp example using switch expression
• WorkingWithDataConsoleApp shows working with
  • Class project DataLibrary to read json data
  • Class project ContainerLibrary with concrete classes used in DataLibrary

More code samples to be added shortly.

Requires

• .NET Core 5 or higher
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 or higher
• Newtonsoft.Json which can be swapped out for System.Json
• SQL-Server Express edition or better