Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft® Visual C#™ .NET in 24 Hours

Getting Started with Visual C# .NET

Before you begin creating programs in Visual C# .NET, you should be familiar with the following terms:

• Distributable Component The final, compiled version of a project. Components can be distributed to other people and other computers and they do not require Visual C# to run (although they do require the .NET runtime, which I'll discuss in Hour 22, “Deploying a Visual C# .NET Solution”). Distributable components are often called programs. In Hour 22, you'll learn how to distribute the Picture Viewer program that you're about to build to other computers.

• Project A collection of files that can be compiled to create a distributable component (program). There are many types of projects, and complex applications ...