You will need to have Visual Studio 2017 installed on your machine to execute the recipes in this chapter. You can install a free community version of Visual Studio 2017 from https://www.visualstudio.com/thank-you-downloading-visual-studio/?sku=Community&rel=15. Ensure that C#, VB, MSBuild, and Visual Studio Extensibility are included in the selected workloads. More specifically, add the .NET desktop development workload and Visual Studio Extensibility tools workloads to your VS install.