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Creating application in Windows through Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio is the IDE and is aware of projects and templates. As stated earlier, Visual Studio Code is a file and folder-based editor and hence it is not aware of projects and templates. So to create the same application through Visual Studio Code, we will make use of the .NET command line. Let's get going!

Open Visual Studio Code, go to View, and click on TERMINAL. It will open Command Prompt/the PowerShell terminal in the bottom section of Visual Studio Code. If you see the PowerShell terminal, type cmd so that it turns into Command Prompt. This is an optional step if you are comfortable with PowerShell.

Let's try and explore the commands available to create a new project, so ...

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