1. (If building on Windows) - **[Visual Studio 2019](https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/preview/)** (Community, Professional, Enterprise) with the latest updates. This is not required for building the repo, but it will help a lot if the intent is to change the code or add new bindings.
1.**.NET Core SDK** To ensure the install worked, make sure you can call `dotnet` tool from a command prompt. We now require .NET 5 preview versions of the SDKs because of our central infrastructure, you can find the installers per platform here:
- For Windows: [Link to .NET 5 preview installer for Windows](https://dotnetcli.azureedge.net/dotnet/Sdk/5.0.100-preview.6.20310.4/dotnet-sdk-5.0.100-preview.6.20310.4-win-x64.exe)**This is important as you won't be able to open projects on Visual Studio if you don't install this machine-wide**
- For Linux: [Link to .NET 5 preview SDK for Linux](https://dotnetcli.azureedge.net/dotnet/Sdk/5.0.100-preview.6.20310.4/dotnet-sdk-5.0.100-preview.6.20310.4-linux-x64.tar.gz)
- For OSX: [Link to .NET 5 preview SDK for OSX](https://dotnetcli.azureedge.net/dotnet/Sdk/5.0.100-preview.6.20310.4/dotnet-sdk-5.0.100-preview.6.20310.4-osx-x64.tar.gz)
- For Windows: [Link to .NET 5 preview installer for Windows](https://dotnetcli.azureedge.net/dotnet/Sdk/5.0.100-rc.2.20479.15/dotnet-sdk-5.0.100-rc.2.20479.15-win-x64.exe)**This is important as you won't be able to open projects on Visual Studio if you don't install this machine-wide**
- For Linux: [Link to .NET 5 preview SDK for Linux](https://dotnetcli.azureedge.net/dotnet/Sdk/5.0.100-rc.2.20479.15/dotnet-sdk-5.0.100-rc.2.20479.15-linux-x64.tar.gz)
- For OSX: [Link to .NET 5 preview SDK for OSX](https://dotnetcli.azureedge.net/dotnet/Sdk/5.0.100-rc.2.20479.15/dotnet-sdk-5.0.100-rc.2.20479.15-osx-x64.tar.gz)
