Visual Basic® 2010 Unleashed

Creating Your First Visual Basic 2010 Project

This section shows how easy it is to create a Visual Basic 2010 application and, if you have a long experience with Visual Studio, the differences between the new version and the previous ones of the development environment. You can create a new project for the Console by first opening the New Project window and then selecting the Console Application project template.

Note

Until Part 4, “Data Access with ADO.NET and LINQ,” all code examples, listings, and code snippets are based on Console applications, so remember to create a Visual Basic project for the console when testing the code.

Name the new project as MyFirst2010Program and then click OK (see Figure 2.11 for details).

Figure 2.11 Creating ...