C# in VC.NET Standard?

[PaulMdx]

Hi,

I've recently bought VC.NET Standard, which I believe comes with some command line tools to build C# and VB apps.

Is this possible, and if so, is there a tutorial in building C# apps in this way? I'm just interested in giving it a go, rather than any full-scale development.

Thanks,

Paul.

[Brad Jones]

The compilers for VB .NET and C# are a part of the .NET Framework -- not a part of Visual Studio .NET or any other IDE. This means that if you have the .NET Framework installed that you have the ability to create C# and VB .NET applications (no Visual Studio .NET is needed).

Because you have VC++ .NET, (I assume that is what you meant by VC and not Visual C# .NET), you probably have the .NET Framework already installed. The command line compiler for C# is csc.exe. You should be able to find this on your machine. You should be able to write the code in your VC++ editor and compile it to C# using the command line.

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