Create New Project in Microsoft Visual Studio 2012

Before we proceed to the source codes we need to create a project or solution, right? If you already know how to create a project/solution file then you may skip this post, if not then let's proceed.

To start with, I will be using Visual Studio 2012 in this blog. This is also the same with the lower versions of Visual Studio however the big difference is the GUI (Graphical User Interface).

Now we will try to create a C# Windows Forms Application. Just follow the simple steps below to get it done.

Steps in creating C# Windows Forms Application:
1. Open Microsoft Visual Studio
2. Click New Project
3. Select Visual C# under Templates Section
4. Click Windows
5. Click Windows Forms Application
6. Enter any name you want for your project in the Name text box
7. Optional: Change the location of your project on where you want to save
8. On the solution you can leave as "Create new solution"
9. In the solution name, you can leave it just like that but it can also be changed to whatever Solution name you like.
10. Click OK and you're done!

Here are the graphical representation of the steps below:

For Step 1 and 2:

Visual Studio Start Page

For the rest of the steps:

Creating a new project/solution

This will be the output when you are done creating a project.

If you want to create other project files or for example you want to create a VB .Net project. You will simply follow these steps but you will only going to select the Visual Basic under Templates Section.

So that's it! Simple right? And there's no need to practice on this one.