| author | baanders |
|---|---|
| description | Include file that lists prerequisites for Azure Digital Twins tutorials |
| ms.service | azure-digital-twins |
| ms.topic | include |
| ms.date | 2/14/2025 |
| ms.author | baanders |
Before beginning this tutorial, start with these prerequisites:
- If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a free account before you begin.
- This tutorial uses .NET. You can download the latest version of the .NET SDK for multiple platforms from Download .NET.
Then, continue through the rest of this section to set up the remaining prerequisites.
The tutorial is driven by an Azure Digital Twins end-to-end sample project written in C#. Get the sample project on your machine by navigating to the sample link, and selecting the Browse code button underneath the title.
This action takes you to the GitHub repo for the samples, which you can download as a .zip by selecting the Code button followed by Download ZIP.
:::image type="content" source="../media/includes/download-repo-zip.png" alt-text="Screenshot of the digital-twins-samples repo on GitHub, highlighting the steps to download it as a zip." lightbox="../media/includes/download-repo-zip.png":::
This action downloads a .zip folder to your machine as digital-twins-samples-main.zip. Unzip the folder and extract the files.
[!INCLUDE Azure Digital Twins: instance prereq]