Setting up the Assembly project

Unfortunately, Visual Studio, by default, has no template for Assembly language projects, therefore, we have to create one ourselves:

  1. Launch Visual Studio and create an empty solution, as shown in the following screenshot:
Creating blank VS2017 solution

Look at the bottom-right part of the Start Page window, where you will see the option to create a blank solution. If there is no such option, click on More project templates... and select Blank Solution from there.

  1. Once the solution has been created for us, we may add a new project. Right-click on the name of the solution and go to Add | New Project:
Adding ...

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