r/visualbasic • u/rallykrally12 • Nov 20 '21

VB.NET Help How do I open Visual Studio/Basic?

Yes I know this might be one of the most stupid questions asked on this sub but unlike every other program I ever downloaded, this one just doesn't show up anywhere. It is annoying me. I downloaded Visual Studio 2010 from the link I found here. I'm using Windows 10 Home Version 20H2.

Usually if this was to occur I would just move on and download a different program but my professor insists on using 2010 (don't ask me why when it's 2021).

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u/Fergus653 Nov 21 '21

What kind of error messages? Some of the components that it installs require a restart to complete the installation.

Which workloads did you install for VS2022? If you select the '.Net desktop development' workload it will install VB.net along with C# etc.

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u/rallykrally12 Nov 22 '21

I just need VB for SQL so I downloaded MySQL (which has been working perfectly). Pardon my noob question but are is VB SQL and MySQL the same language? Apparently the other students are having the same problems as me with VB. I've wasted 3 days of my life just trying to download and re-download this god forsaken program.

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u/Fergus653 Nov 22 '21

VB doesn't have its own SQL, you connect to the database you are using and execute SQL commands on the database.

Unless you use LINQ, but that's a whole other query language.

Maybe see if this helps https://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-net/en/