Creating a Project

To pay homage to our forebears, we will examine the revised project management facilities and create the notorious “Hello World” application as a console application. (For more information on Project Templates, refer to the section later in this chapter, “An Overview of Project Templates.”)

By now you will have configured your profile to using Visual Basic settings. At this point choose File, New, Project in Visual Studio .NET. The New Project window lists project types; select the Visual Basic Projects folder. On the right side of the New Project dialog box, select the Console Application template. (You may have to scroll the Templates window a little to find it.)

At this point, you will be presented with a default project ...

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