Hello .NET!

Every introduction to writing applications needs to start with the Hello World type application. This isn't because it's such a cool cliché. It's to get you familiar with the environment you're working in and to better explain what's going on when you're running the application. To get you started with Visual Studio .NET development, you're going to create the HelloNET application.

To begin, start Visual Studio .NET. On the Getting Started page, click the New Project button. You're prompted with the New Project dialog you learned about yesterday. Figure 3.1 demonstrates the New Project dialog.

Figure 3.1. The New Project dialog box.

Select the Windows Application template from either the C# or Visual Basic folder, and change the ...

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