Creating a New Project

When you first start Visual Studio .NET, you see the Visual Studio Start Page tab in the IDE. You can open projects created previously or create new projects from this Start page (see Figure 1.1). For this quick tour, you're going to create a new Windows application, so click the New Project button in the lower left 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 enables you to create many types of .NET projects.

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