Creating a New Project

When you first start Visual Studio .NET, you're shown the Visual Studio Start Page tab within the IDE. Using this page, you can open projects created previously or create new ones (see Figure 1.1). For this quick tour, you're going to create a new Windows application, so click New Project to display the New Project dialog box shown in Figure 1.2.

Figure 1.1. You can open existing projects or create new projects from the Visual Studio Start page.

Figure 1.2. The New Project dialog box allows you to create many types of .NET projects.

If you don't see the Visual Studio Start page, chances are that you've changed the default ...

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