Building and Running

You can run your application at any time by selecting either Start or Start Without Debugging from the Debug menu, or you can accomplish the same results by pressing either F5 or Ctrl+F5, respectively. You can also start the program by clicking the Start icon (pictured in Figure 4-6) on the Standard toolbar.

The Start icon

Figure 4-6. The Start icon

For console applications, the advantage of running the program with Ctrl+F5 is that Visual Studio .NET will open your application in a console window, display its results, and then add a line to press a key when you are ready, as shown in Figure 4-7. This keeps the window open until you’ve seen the results and pressed a key, at which point the window will close.

Running the application

Figure 4-7. Running the application

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