Building Console Apps in Windows Using Visual Studio
Explore building a console app in Windows using Visual Studio 2022. Learn to create new projects, manage solutions, write C# code, compile, and run your application. Understand the role of compiler-generated folders and how to use Visual Studio tools to streamline development.
This lesson aims to showcase how to build a console app using Visual Studio 2022 for Windows. If you do not have a Windows computer or want to use Visual Studio Code, you can skip this lesson since the code will be the same; the tooling experience is different.
Managing multiple projects using Visual Studio 2022
Visual Studio 2022 has a concept named a solution that allows us to open and manage multiple projects simultaneously. We will use a solution to manage the two projects we will create in this section.
Writing code using Visual Studio 2022
Let’s get started writing code!
Step 1: Start Visual Studio 2022.
Step 2: Click “Create a new project” in the Start window.
Step 3: In the “Create a new project” dialog, enter console in the “Search for templates” box, and select “Console App,” making sure that we have chosen the C# project template rather than another language, such as Visual Basic or C++, and that it is cross-platform, not for .NET Framework, which is ...