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Clone HelloMurder

We’ll set up our development environment and clone the “Hello Murder” project from GitHub.

In this section, we’ll:

  • Install Git, if necessary
  • Install Visual Studio or .NET, if necessary
  • Clone HelloMurder

Install Git

First – in order to follow this walkthrough, you’ll need to make sure Git is installed. You can obtain the installers from one of these locations:

Once Git is installed, continue to the next step.

Install build tools

Next, you’ll need a way to run .NET 8.0. If you don’t already have it, pick either Option A or Option B below.

Option A: If your operating system is Windows and you would like to install Visual Studio 2022:

  1. Visit this site: Visual Studio Downloads

  2. Scroll down to the download buttons. If you have a license for Visual Studio Professional or Enterprise, download one of those. Otherwise the Free download button for Visual Studio Community.

  3. Run the downloaded VisualStudioSetup.exe file.

    When the installer asks for Workloads to install, ensure that .NET desktop environment is checked under Workloads:

    Workloads showing “.NET desktop environment” checked

    Also make sure .NET 8 Runtime is checked under Individual components:

    Individual components showing “.NET 8.0 Runtime” checked

  4. Then click Install to install Visual Studio.

Option B: If your operating system is Linux or MacOS, or you would prefer installing .NET 8 from a command line without Visual Studio:

  1. Visit this page and select the appropriate installer or binary: .NET 8.

  2. Run the downloaded installer or extract the downloaded binary.

Clone Hello Murder

Murder can be cloned within Visual Studio or via the command line. Pick either Option A or Option B below.

Option A: To clone Hello Murder with Visual Studio:

  1. Launch Visual Studio 2022.

  2. From the launch menu select Clone a Repository from the launcher. (If you’re already in the VS 2022 editing environment, select Clone Repository… from the Git menu.)

  3. Enter the Repository location: 

    https://github.com/isadorasophia/hellomurder.git

  4. Enter the Path where you would like the hellomurder repository to be stored, e.g. “c:\users\<your name>\source\repos\myhellomurder”

  5. Select Clone. VS 2022 will then clone the repository into the specified path.

Option B: To clone Hello Murder with the command line:

  1. Start your command line or PowerShell.

  2. Navigate to the folder of choice.

  3. Type: 

    git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/isadorasophia/hellomurder.git myhellomurder

    In this example, myhellomurder will be created within the folder selected in step 2.

Next steps

In the next section, we’ll launch Murder’s editing environment, the Architect.