Merge pull request #1252 from rpetrusha/starting

top-level getting started portal page

Author: Ron Petrusha

docs/csharp/getting-started/index.md

@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 title: Getting Started | C# Guide
 description: Getting Started with C#
 keywords: C#, Getting Started, Acquisition, Install
-author: dotnet-bot
+author: rpetrusha
+ms.author: ronpet
 manager: wpickett
 ms.date: 08/23/2016
 ms.topic: article
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-# Getting started
-
-> **Note**
-> 
-> This topic hasn’t been written yet! 
->
-> We welcome your input to help shape the scope and approach. You can track the status and provide input on this
-> [issue](https://github.com/dotnet/docs/issues/942) at GitHub.
-> 
-> If you would like to review early drafts and outlines of this topic, please leave a note with your contact information in the issue.
->
-> Learn more about how you can contribute on [GitHub](https://github.com/dotnet/docs/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md).
->
+# Getting started with C# #
+
+This section provides short, simple tutorials that let you quickly build an application using C# and .NET Core. There are getting started topics for Visual Studio 2015, Visual Studio 2017 RC, and Visual Studio Code. You can build either a simple Hello World application or, if you have Visual Studio 2017, a simple class library that can be used by other applications. 
+
+The following topics are available: 
+
+- [Building a C# Hello World application with .NET Core in Visual Studio 2017 RC](with-visual-studio-2017.md)
+
+   Visual Studio 2017 RC,  the latest release of Visual Studio, lets you code, compile, run, debug, profile, and publish your applications from a integrated development environment for Windows.
+
+   The topic lets you create and run a simple Hello World application and then modify it to run a slightly more interactive Hello World application. Once you've finished building and running your application, you can also learn how to [debug it](.\debugging-with-visual-studio-2017.md) and how to [publish it](.\publishing-with-visual-studio-2017.md) so that it can be run on any platform supported by .NET Core.
+
+- [Building a class library with C# and .NET Core in Visual Studio 2017 RC](library-with-visual-studio-2017.md)
+
+   A class library lets you define types and type members that can be called from another application. This topic lets you create a class library with a single method that determines whether a string begins with an uppercase character. Once you've finished building the library, you can develop a [unit test](testing-library-with-visual-studio.md) to ensure that it works as expected, and then you can make it available to [applications that want to consume it](consuming-library-with-visual-studio-2017.md).
+
+- [Getting started with Visual Studio Code](with-visual-studio-code.md)
+
+   Visual Studio Code is a programming editor for Windows, Linux, and macOS that supports IntelliSense (code completion) and debugging.
+
+   This topic shows you how to create and run a simple Hello World application with Visual Studio Code and .NET Core.
+
+- [Building a C# Hello World application with .NET Core in Visual Studio 2015](with-visual-studio.md)
+
+   Visual Studio 2015, like the later Visual Studio 2017 RC,  lets you code, compile, run, debug, profile, and publish your applications from a integrated development environment for Windows.
+
+   The topic lets you create and run an interactive Hello World application. Once you've finished building and running your application, you can also learn how to [debug it](.\debugging-with-visual-studio.md) and how to [publish it](.\publishing-with-visual-studio.md) so that it can be run on any platform supported by .NET Core.
+

docs/csharp/getting-started/publishing-with-visual-studio.md

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 ![Image](.\media\release.jpg)
 
-2. Right-click on the HelloWorld project (not the HelloWorld solution) and select **Publ2222ish** from the menu. You can also select **Publish HelloWorld** from the main Visual Studio **Build** menu.
+2. Right-click on the HelloWorld project (not the HelloWorld solution) and select **Publish** from the menu. You can also select **Publish HelloWorld** from the main Visual Studio **Build** menu.
 
 3. When the **Profile** tab of the **Publish** dialog box shown in the following figure appears, select the **File System** target.