From the course: Robotic Process Automation: Tech Primer

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A simple program

A simple program

- [Instructor] The first thing I want to do, is show you how to build a simple program. Because we can use this simple program as a foundation to experiment with some of the .NET Framework capabilities. So I've opened up Visual Studio and I'm clicking on File, New, Project, and inside this New Project window we can expand this installed node here and notice we have Visual C# projects or Visual Basic projects. Visual C# is a very popular programming language and we can use it to create applications that our RPA tools can use as helpers. Since UiPath uses a lot of Visual Basic snippets I'm going to stick to Visual Basic for now and show most of my examples using that language. So I've expanded Visual Basic and I'm clicking on Windows Desktop, and notice there's a bunch of stuff we can choose from here. But we're going to use this thing called Console App and that's just going to allow us to create an application that looks like this window's command prompt. Notice it's blinking there…

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