Deep-dive into application using Visual Studio

In the previous section, you learned about various things that our console application can contain. In this section, lets deep-dive to get more insight on this using Visual Studio.

To get started, go to the project properties. Do this from the solution explorer (right-click on project and click on Properties) or from menus (Project | Day02 properties); you will get the project properties window, as shown in the following screenshot:

On the Application tab, we can set the Assembly name, the Default namespace, the Target framework, and the Output type (the output types are Console Application, Windows Application, Class Library).

The following screenshot is that of the Build tab:

From the Build tab, we can set Conditional compilation symbols, Platform target, and other available options.

The following screenshot depicts the Package tab:

The Package tab helps us directly create NuGet packages. In the earlier version, we needed a lot of configuration settings to build a NuGet package. In the current version, we just need to provide the information on the Package tab, and Visual Studio will generate the NuGet package according to our options. The Debug tab, Signing, and Resources tabs are self-explanatory and provide us with a way to sign assemblies and support to embed resources in our program.