Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

Where Is the .NET Framework?

When you install Microsoft Visual Studio 2015, the setup process installs.NET Framework 4.6 into a folder named %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\4.0.30319. (See the section “Differences Between .NET 4.6 and 4.5,” later in this chapter, for details about versioning.) If you open this folder with Windows Explorer, you see many DLL libraries that constitute the Base Class Library, which exposes types that you use in your applications. The Base Class Library is discussed in more detail later in this chapter. The .NET Framework also provides several command-line tools, such as MSBuild (the build engine for Visual Studio), but in most scenarios you will not need to invoke them manually because you will work with the Microsoft ...