Understanding the basic structure of a C# program
So far, we have learned about the basics of C# and the .NET runtime. In this section, we will write a simple C# program so that we can have a short introduction to some of the key elements of a simple program.
Before writing a program, you must create a project. For this purpose, you should use Visual Studio 2019; alternatively, you could use any other version for most of the content of this book. The source code accompanying this book was written in Visual Studio 2019 using .NET Core projects. When creating a new project, select Console App (.NET Core) and call the project chapter_01:
Figure 1.7 – Select the Console App (.NET Core) template when creating a new project in Visual Studio
A project with the following content will be automatically created for you:
Figure 1.8 – Screenshot of Visual Studio and the code generated for the selected template
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