Visual Basic Setup Development Environment
Visual Basic Setup Development Environment
Environment
As discussed in VB Introduction, Visual Basic (VB) programming language has been built on
.NET Framework to build various secure and robust applications such as windows, web, or
database applications based on our requirements.
To run Visual Basic (VB) applications, we require to install a .NET Framework component on
our machines. If you are using a Windows operating system, the .NET Framework is installed
on your machine by default. To know more about the .NET Framework versions installed on
your machine, check this .NET Framework Versions.
The Visual Studio IDE will provide a common user interface with various development tools to
build applications with different programming languages such as C#, F#, Visual Basic, etc.
To install and use Visual Studio for a commercial purpose, we need to buy a license from
Microsoft. If you want to use Visual Studio for learning (non-commercial) purposes, Microsoft
provided a free Visual Studio Community version.
You can download and install a Visual Studio Community version from visualstudio.com. In our
Visual Basic (VB) tutorial, we will use the Visual Studio 2017 community version.
Now we will see how to create a console application using visual studio in a visual basic
programming language.
After the visual studio launch, create a new console application using a visual basic
programming language; for that, Go to File New select a Project like as shown below.
Once you click on Project, a new popup will open in that select Visual Basic from the left pane
and choose Console App. In the Name section, give any name for your project and select an
appropriate Location path to save your project files, and click OK like as shown below.
Once we click on the OK button, a new console application will be created like as shown below.
This is how we can create a console application in a visual basic programming language using a
visual studio based on our requirements.