Microsoft 9GD00001 manual Windows Projects, Selecting a New Project via the File menu

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Figure 1-27 Selecting a New Project via the File menu

earlier in this chapter, the default set of project types would have been VB and C# projects would be listed in the Other Languages branch. The following sections describe the types of projects available, some of which you’ll learn how to create later in this book.

Windows Projects

Selecting Windows Projects will show you a list of project types that can be created for desktop applications, including Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Forms, and Console. Console applications are for building applications that don’t need a graphical user interface (also known as GUI and pronounced “goo-ee”) and are generally for creating utilities that administrators can write scripts with or for writing a quick test for your program. You’ll be using Console applications when learning VB and C# languages later in this book because it is a simple way to concentrate on the language without any distractions. Windows Forms is an older desktop GUI technology. The new desktop GUI technology for .NET is called WPF, which is covered in a later chapter in this book.