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The ‘Create a new project’ window provides the option to create any of the many applications provided by the IDE. To reduce the available options, select Visual Basic from the languages drop-down menu, shown in Figure 1.2.
Figure 1.2: Create new project window
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The two applications you will be using are shown in the list of available applications. The applications may not appear at the top of the list as shown in Figure 1.2. NOTE: Be careful when selecting the console applications. There is another console application for use with macOS and Linux operating systems on the list. This is called Console App (.NET Core)
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When you start a new console application program, you will be prompted to name the project (see Figure 1.3). It is good practice to give all projects meaningful names.
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Defining the name of the project using the ‘Project name’ box will change the Solution name to match the project name. It is possible to have several projects within one solution, but this is beyond the scope of this book. This window allows you to select an alternative storage location for your project if you do not wish to use the default ‘source\repos’ folder.
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