Come to think of it, if you are brand new to VS you will need to install the plugins for cookiecutter and git, and if you haven't used git, you'll need to configure it as your repo, which is not part of this tool's instructions
There are other things you may want to do in addition, like including Harmony and any other frameworks you wish to use, as resources, so paying attention to how that is done and then allowed or included in your mod will be helpful