Open Visual Studio
- choose either Visual Basic windows Forms Application, Class Library or Console Application as your application type. For early testing I suggest choosing console application.
- choose project -> applicationName Properties (its the last one on the list)
- Select the References tab and click Add...
Tip: you can shift select many items in the next window to select many at time. Next time you use it you can speed up browsing by clicking recent tab instead of com - in the select COM tab of the Add Reference window
- Browse for Components starting with Visual Components and select at least:
- Visual Components 3DCreate Type Library
- Visual Components COM Library
- others if you need commands related to interfaces
- click OK
You can now start writing code in the code tab code window. The intellisense system should now know of the com libraries so when you type for instance vc3 it should automatically suggest vc3DCreate.
That's it your now ready to start out with your first piece of VB COM code.