# Hello World for Google App Engine Flexible Environment
This sample application is ready to deploy to Google App Engine Flexible Environment.
## Prerequisites
1. **Follow the set-up instructions in [the documentation](https://cloud.google.com/dotnet/docs/setup).**
2. Install the [Google Cloud SDK](https://cloud.google.com/sdk/). The Google Cloud SDK
is required to deploy .NET applications to App Engine.
3. Install the [.NET Core SDK, version 2.0](https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/master/release-notes/download-archives/2.0.5-download.md)
or newer.
##  Using PowerShell
### Run Locally
```psm1
PS > dotnet restore
PS > dotnet run
```
### Deploy to App Engine
```psm1
PS > dotnet restore
PS > dotnet publish
PS > gcloud beta app deploy .\bin\Debug\netcoreapp2.1\publish\app.yaml
```
##  Using Visual Studio 2017
Visual Studio is *optional*. An old, unmaintained branch of samples that work
with Visual Studio 2015 is
[here](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/dotnet-docs-samples/tree/vs2015).
[Google Cloud Tools for Visual Studio](
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GoogleCloudTools.GoogleCloudPlatformExtensionforVisualStudio)
make it easy to deploy to App Engine. Install them if you are running Visual Studio.
### Run Locally
Open **HelloWorld.csproj**, and Press **F5**.
### Deploy to App Engine
1. In Solution Explorer, right-click the **HelloWorld** project and choose **Publish HelloWorld to Google Cloud**.
2. Click **App Engine Flex**.
3. Click **Publish**.
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