Getting Started

In keeping with programming tradition, Listing D.1 outlines our first program: “Hello, world”.

Listing D.1. The classic "Hello, world" program, hello.cs.
using System;


class Hello
{
        static void Main() {
            // write "Hello, world!" to the screen
            Console.WriteLine("Hello, world!");
        }
}

Developers with experience in ASP/VBScript should note that the C# language is case sensitive and requires a semicolon at the end of statements like JavaScript. By following convention, we save the source code for our program with a .cs file extension, hello.cs. We can compile our program using the .NET command-line compiler, csc.exe, using the following ...

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