Manual for dev environment setup

[Yinimi]

I was struggling a bit to get the solution compiling since it supports some platforms I usually don't work with.
What do you think if we add a small section in the readme on how to set the development environment up and where to find what, so that you are ready to go.
This should make it easier for newcomers to contribute.
I'm thinking about something like this:

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Contributing

Setup

To set everything up with Visual Studio:

• Install VS
• Enable the following features (workloads) in the vs installer: [...]
• Enable the following Individual components in the vs installer: [...]
• Install the following workloads: [...]
• Install Windows 10 SDK 10.0.19041 sdk-archive

Setup with Rider:

• ?

Setup with vs code:

• ?

Get started

There are the following solutions

• main solution (path)
  Contains the code of the framework
• features solution (path)
  ...
• [...]

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This might help to get an overview about the repository. I do not remember all the steps to get it running, might be required to test the setting up on a blank system.

[Yinimi]

Additionally it seems to be required to compile the mail solution once in Release | Any CPU so the dlls can be found for features solution etc.

[Yinimi]

It seems this can also just be selected under Individual Components

[vb2ae]

The workflows in Visual Studio 2022 you need should be .net Mutil-platform App UI Development, .net desktop development, and Windows Application development. I have .net 8 installed. Under indivual component I have Xamarin (out of support) checked.

[vb2ae]

Additionally it seems to be required to compile the mail solution once in Release | Any CPU so the dlls can be found for features solution etc.

Yes we look at the release dlls in the samples.

[vb2ae]

What errors are you seeing when you try and build?

[vb2ae]

We should add a visual studio setup section to the documentation

[Yinimi]

I managed to fix everything, but sometimes it's not clear whats missing