Deciding Which Interface to Use

You Do it

Working with the Visual Studio IDE

In the next steps, you use the IDE to create a Form with a Button and a Labe$1.$ Your first console application in Chapter $1\text{'}$s "You Do It$"$ section displayed "Hello, world!" at the command prompt. This application displays "Hello, Visual World!" on a Form.

Open Microsoft Visual Studio. You might have a desktop shortcut you can double$-$click, or in Windows $10$ you can type the first few letters of Visual Studio in the "Ask me anything" search box, and then select it from the list of choices. Your steps might differ slightly from the ones listed here if you are using a different version of Visual Studio or a different operating system. If you are using a computing from the school's computing menu.

Within Visual Studio, select File from the main menu, then New and Project. Then, in the New Project window, select Visual C# and Windows Forms App. $($Refer to Figure $3-1.)$ Instead of using the default project name, use HelloVisualWorld, and select a location to store the project. Then click OK

The HelloVisualWorld development environment opens, as shown in Figure $3-16.$ The text in the title bar of the blank Form contains the default text

Figure $3-16$ The HelloVisualWorld project development environment

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