Fortunately, configuring your environment for ML.NET is relatively easy. In this section, we will be installing Visual Studio 2019 and .NET Core 3. If you are unsure whether you have either installed, please observe the following steps. In addition, there are some organizational elements and processes to establish early on as we proceed through this book and you begin experimenting on your own.
Installing Visual Studio
At the heart of ML.NET development is Microsoft Visual Studio. For all samples and screenshots used throughout this book, Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 Professional on Windows 10 19H2 will be used. At the time of writing, 16.3.0 is the latest version. Please use the latest version available. If you do not have Visual Studio 2019, a fully featured Community version is available for free on www.visualstudio.com.
For the scope of this book as mentioned in Chapter 1, Getting Started with Machine Learning and ML.NET, we will be creating...