Visual Studio Express 2015 Install and Early Days Tutorial
Today we’re creating a Visual Studio Express 2015 VB.Net Project for an Online Project called “Example of math variables and if statements” as an entry level project you could quickly try as your first Visual Studio 2015 Express project.
We say “first” because even though we’ve created more complex Visual Studio projects in the past, we’ve just installed a new Visual Studio version called Visual Studio Express 2015.
We did the install of Visual Studio Express 2015 (using .NET Framework 4.5.2) onto Windows 10 and had no issues, as long as you have more than 8 gB of spare hard disk space. The installs for Visual Studio keep on getting easier to work and visually more pleasing.
Once up and running the VB.Net major piece of code for this Windows Desktop application called “Example of math variables and if statements” you could call Form1.vb fits in to the steps to create the project that went, for us …
- Opened Visual Studio Express 2015 in Windows 10 via Windows icon at bottom left -> All Apps -> (look in the V’s for) Visual Studio 2015 (with the purple logo)
- File -> New -> Project…
- Online
- Samples -> Visual Basic -> Web -> Example of math expressions, and if statements
- Build -> Build Solution
- Debug -> Start without debugging
So this project will create an executable in “C:\Users\[YourUsername]\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Projects\Example of math, variables, and if statements\bin\Debug\Example of math variables and if statements.exe” (believe it or not … was gobsmacked, myself, at the commas in a directory name?!) that could be double clicked as a way to execute independent of the Visual Studio Express 2015 IDE, or the other way to run it is to use the IDE as described in the last two steps above.
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- Visual Studio Express 2015 install on Windows 10
- “C:\Users\[YourUsername]\Documents\Visual Studio 2015\Projects\Example of math, variables, and if statements\bin\Debug\Example of math variables and if statements.exe” desktop Windows form application creation via cloning of an Online VB.Net project
We hope you like it?!
Maybe this is the introduction you need to explore the massive world that Visual Studio (as an IDE for desktop or web or mobile application software) is. Along the way I noticed the term “Mac OS X” flash past and you can rest assured I’ll be following up that lead … (another meaning!) … over time.
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