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Building Console Apps in Windows Using Visual Studio

Building Console Apps in Windows Using Visual Studio

Learn how to build, compile and run a console app with Visual Studio 2022.

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 ...