Introduction to the Visual Studio IDE

After you first install VS, the VS installer will give you a few options regarding workloads, which means the type of applications you are going to develop using this IDE. For this book, we will only be creating C# console applications, so you can choose that option if you want. Now, let's start the VS IDE. After loading the IDE, it'll show you a start page with multiple options. Choose the option to create a new project.