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32 Microsoft Visual Studio 2010: A Beginner’s Guide
earlier in this chapter, the default set of project types would have been VB and C# projects
would be listed in the Other Languages branch. The following sections describe the types
of projects available, some of which you’ll learn how to create later in this book.
Windows Projects
Selecting Windows Projects will show you a list of project types that can be created for
desktop applications, including Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows
Forms, and Console. Console applications are for building applications that don’t need a
graphical user interface (also known as GUI and pronounced “goo-ee”) and are generally
for creating utilities that administrators can write scripts with or for writing a quick test for
your program. You’ll be using Console applications when learning VB and C# languages
later in this book because it is a simple way to concentrate on the language without any
distractions. Windows Forms is an older desktop GUI technology. The new desktop GUI
technology for .NET is called WPF, which is covered in a later chapter in this book.
Figure 1-27 Selecting a New Project via the File menu