Building the Project
Once you have typed in your source code, using the source code editor in Visual Studio .NET, you probably want to run it to verify that it works. Unfortunately, your computer does not understand how to execute or run your program using the source code directly. Your computer can only run software that is written in a language called machine code. Machine code is a format that is directly understood by your computer and is not humanly comprehensible (at least not for most of you).
Most software developers use a language such as Visual Basic to write code and then use a tool such as Visual Studio to convert this code into machine code for the purpose of having the computer understand it. This allows you to develop software ...
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