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Set up the tools

Set up the tools - Visual Basic Tutorial

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Set up the tools

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- [Instructor] We are going to build our first simple visual basic application. My goal is to show the minimum structure you need to create and compile and run the app, and we're going to make this app with a text editor. Don't worry, we'll use better tools once we get the basics down. For this example, look on the right side of the screen, you can see Notepad. On the left side of the screen in the lower left is File Explorer. It's open to a folder in the example code we clone from GitHub. You can see it's in the code folder and then in the start here folder. This allows us to see the files created by the dotnet commands. Over on the top left, I've got the Visual Studio developer PowerShell window open. I'll use this to create the project and run the other commands. To be clear, it's more likely that we'll use Visual Studio to handle the compilation and other commands for us. But if you ever need to use dotnet commands, this helps us see how they work. Remember that this is the…

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