C#Bot IDE Setup - Visual Studio (Mac, Windows) - License Required

This guide will walk you through the process of setting up and using Visual Studio to work with a C#Bot application. This software requires a commercial license.

Required Articles

• Setting Up Your Development Environment
• C#Bot Development Environment: Source Code
• Running C#Bot

Setup Visual Studio

Visual Studio is licensed software. There are different version (Professional and Enterprise), and for this lesson we will be using a trial version of Visual Studio Professional, but the lesson will be applicable to all versions of Visual Studio 2019.

Go to the Visual Studio Download Page and download a version of Visual Studio 2019 appropriate for your use case.

Download

Windows

Run the Installer for Visual Studio 2019 and select the following workloads:

• ASP.NET and web development
• Node.js development
• .NET Core cross-platform development

Mac

Run the Installer for Visual Studio 2019 and select the following workloads:

• .NET Core

Setup Project

Open the solution file for the project application.

Windows

• Launch Visual Studio and select Open a project or solution from the launch screen.
• Navigate to the parent folder of the project.
• Select [project name].sln

Mac

• Launch Visual Studio and select Open from the launch screen.
• Navigate to the parent folder of the project.
• Select [project name].sln

Running an application

At the top of the screen (for windows and mac) there is a large play button. Clicking on this button will launch both the server-side and client-side of the application.

Windows

Mac

Debugging the Server-Side

You can debug the server-side by adding in breakpoints and running the application through Visual Studio. To learning more about debugging in Visual Studio checkout this Visual Studio debugging guide.

Debugging the Client-Side

Since Typescript and Javascript support is not supported by free plugins, you can use Chrome to debug the client-side. You can add debugger in your code base at the line you want to focus on, and this will trigger your browser to add a breakpoint in that same spot.