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The official released version of BASINS is available from EPA at:

https://www.epa.gov/exposure-assessment-models/basins

To get BASINS up and running in Visual Studio:

1. Install Visual Studio 2015. The free version works fine. Visual Basic and C# are both required.
2. Clone the repository into a local folder (for example dev\BASINS)
3. Install BASINS from the most recent packaged version. This will install in a folder (for example, C:\BASINS41)
4. Copy C:\BASINS41\bin into dev\BASINS and let it replace all files
5. Open dev\BASINS\BASINS40_15.sln in Visual Studio
6. In Build menu, open Configuration Manager.
7. In Configuration Manager, Active solution platform: x86
8. Scroll through the list of projects to make sure Platform is x86 for all of them.
9. Close Configuration Manager
10. Open Solution Explorer (which is an alternative tab to Team Explorer)
11. In Solution Explorer, find the project BASINS15, right-click, Set as Startup Project
12. Right-click BASINS15 again, and this time choose 'Properties'
13. Choose the 'Debug' category on the left
14. Set 'Start Action' to 'Start External Program'
15. Navigate to 'dev/BASINS/bin' and select 'BASINS.exe'
16. Build menu, Rebuild Solution.
17. Debug menu, Start Debugging (F5)