Microsoft Visual Basic 2013 Step by Step

Chapter 10. Creating console applications

After completing this chapter, you will be able to

• Console applications in Visual Studio

• Learn to use the Console Application template in Visual Studio 2013.

• Modules and procedures

• The Sub Main() procedure

• Building, publishing, and running console apps

This chapter describes how to create a console, or command-line, application in Visual Studio 2013. Console applications are considered a bit of an anomaly today in the world of advanced graphics user interfaces and Windows Store apps. This is because a console application has an extremely minimal user interface—the only interaction you get between a console application and the user is character-based monitor output and the keyboard. However, console applications ...