Guide to Game Development/The Programming Language/VB.NET/How to install and create the project

Installation
So you'll need to get the latest version of visual studio that you can download from Microsoft.

When downloading you'll want to download the latest desktop version from here, get the express version (free version).

Follow the steps to install it (this can't write steps for this as new updates might make the steps change).

Create the project
Next you should learn how to program in a console application environment, to do this, follow these steps:
 * 1) Click New Project.
 * 2) Make sure that Visual Basic is selected on the left.
 * 3) Select Console Application.
 * 4) Optional: change the name of the project at the bottom of the window.
 * 5) Press Ok to create the project.