New Project Dialog

The starting point to create a new application is the New Project dialog, which can be found through File, New, Project or invoked by Ctrl+Shift+N. A link is available from the Projects tab on the Start Page, too. A whole load of different project types are available, also depending on the edition used and the installation options selected. Actually, the number of available project templates has grown so much over the years that the dialog was redesigned in Visual Studio 2010 to include features such as search.

Because I’ve selected Visual C# as my preferred language at the first start of Visual Studio 2010, the C# templates are shown immediately. (For other languages, scroll down to the Other Languages entry on the left.) ...

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