Create your first C# Code in Visual Studio

Create a console application in Visual Studio that displays "Hello World".

Hello World 👋 #

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In this example, we’ll create a C# Console application in Visual Studio.

Open Visual Studio 2022, on the start up page select “Create New Project”:

Select “Console App” from the menu on the right, then click “Next”:

Configure your project on the window that follows by providing the:

• Project Name - This will be the name of your C# Project. All C# codes are in a C# Project.
• Path or folder location where your C# Project will be stored
• Solution Name - This will be the name of the Solution. In Visual Studio, all C# projects are inside a C# Solution. Solutions are containers of one or more projects. Typically, a solution contains projects related to each other.

Then click “Next”

In the next window, select the .NET framework version your project will use then click “Create”.

In this case I’ll chose 6.0 and will tick the checkbox so my project will not use ‘top-level’ statements. (find out more about top-level statements here – Top-level statements - programs without Main methods)

Visual Studio will then create your C# Project based on a console application template. By default the template contains “Hello World” C# codes.

Try executing the code by “running” it. Click the green play icon in the toolbar.

The output will then show which is a “Hello World!" displayed in the console…