Creating a Project in Visual Studio

The following procedure helps you creating the project in Visual Studio for the optimization plugin example.

Prerequisites: You must have installed the .NET Framework 4.7.2 development tools.

1. Open Visual Studio.
2. In the Get Started section, click Create a new project.
   
   
3. In the Create a new project window, select Class Library (.NET Framework).
   
   
   The Class Library (.NET Framework) lets you create a *.dll file using the .NET framework.
4. Click Next.
5. In the Configure your new project, fill in the different fields:
   
   
   • Project name is the name of your *.dll.
   • Location is the folder where your files are created.
   • Solution nameis the name of your whole solution (a solution can have multiple projects).
   • Framework is the version of the .NET Framework to use. In your case .NET Framework 4.7.2.
   Note: For the plugin example, the project and solution will have the same name: OptimPluginSample.
6. Click Create.

The project is created with a default class in it.