How to start with ANNdotNET GUI Tool

In order to start ANNdotNET GUI Tool, the user has two choices:

1. Download stable version of ANNdotNET GUI Tool from Release section of the project, or
2. Compile and run the project from Visual Studio

How to run ANNdotNET GUI Tool from release section

This option is handy in case you don't have installed Visual Studio or you want to use the application without source code, which is the main purpose of this tool.The following actions should be performed:

• Download binaries from the release section at: https://github.com/bhrnjica/anndotnet/releases,
• Unzip the binaries on you r machine and run anndotnet.wnd.exe exe file.
• Once the application is run, select one of many pre-calculated projects placed on Start Page.

The following image shows Iris Flower Identification project opened in ANNdotNET GUI Tool

How to run ANNdotNET GUI Tool from source code

The second option is similar as in case of ANNdotNET Tool. Only difference is the startup project which in this case should be anndotnet.wnd, which is shown on the image below.

To recap the section, once the user download the source code and open it by using Visual Studio, the anndotnet.wnd should be selected as startup project. Beside startup project, user also should change the system architecture to x64, and press F5. Once the Visual Studio compiles and builds the solution, the ANNdotNET windows desktop application is shown on the user’s machine.