Microsoft C# 2010 Tutorials
Visual C# 2010 Express / Your First C# Program
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For those of you who are brand new to this whole Microsoft development world and especially with Microsoft's Development Tools, I'm going to do a very short video here. A very simple, your first C# program. So what we're going to do is, come down and click on Start, we'll open Microsoft Visual C# 2010 Express. So I'll just click on that and open it and then I'm going to create your first program. Now this one will not be out there in the Work Files, you just need to follow along and do this. Okay. So notice New Project, that's what we'll do, and Windows Forms Application. We'll just change the name down here to, First Program. And then we'll take OK, click on OK. Notice it has created for me, over here on the right and will do for you as well, the Solution called First Program. And it contains 1 project and that project's called First Program. Well, here's our form, I'm going to mouse over Toolbox, let that fly out and then I'm going to pin it up so I can see these things. Now there are a number of ways, you can put your controls onto the form. I can just double-click it and notice it puts it in the upper left and notice I've highlighted that, I'm going to hit my Delete key and take it away. Or I can drag it on and wherever I drop it, the upper left corner will start right there. Okay. So I could have easily dragged it down here and then I can, of course, very easily drag it later. Now what's really cool is if I drag another button on, you'll notice these little blue lines pop up. So that if I want to put these things, you know, in places where they're lined up and this is taking care of alignment for me. Okay. So I'm just going to delete Button 2. Now if I double-click Button 1 I'm going to come out here and write some code. Then I'm going to make this Solution Explorer and the Properties go away so that I have some room and what I'm going to do is, just put a nice irritating Message Box. So Message Box, now notice, how intellisense is trying to help me write this? It's showing Message Box here. If I just hit the dot, notice I get Message Box Show and then when I open this, you can see all my Overloads and you will see how to do Overloads later. These are the various options I have for the parameters. Alright. Well the first one, notice, I just put a, a string text in here, and so I'll just put my first program. Then I will close that and then at the end of all our C# lines, we need a semicolon. Notice if I don't put the semicolon and I go to the next line, I'll get a little red squiggly, and when I mouse over it, it'll usually throw it, tell me, give me a hint on the Error Message. If it don't I can look right down here on the Error List that comes up and double-click, and it'll take me to where the problem is and there it is. So I need to put, it's telling me semicolon is expected so I can just hit it and I press Return and boom, there's my semicolon. Now to test this or to run it, I will go up here onto the, the Toolbar up here and just click the Play Button or actually, Start Debugging. And this is actually starting me in Debug Mode. I don't have any Break Points in here, so it's not going to stop and I click on the Button and boom there is my little Message Box and my first program. Okay. You'll notice there actually wasn't a boom but notice since I'm starting debugging, I have a Locals Window and a Call Stack to help me debug what's going on in my application. And if I'd had any errors here, then notice if I leave this off and I've got an error out here and I try to build it, it's going to tell me there were Build Errors, do you want to continue and run the last successful build? Well it's probably not going to help you, so I'm just going to say no and go figure out what my error is and take care of it. Alright. Notice this Error List down here is just like all other windows. I can determine how much of the screen it takes up, by clicking and dragging or I can unpin this and then it will show up later when I need it. And notice I tell it No and boom it popped up and notice it popped up to the, the last place where I had dragged it and sized it. Okay. So anyway, that's as simple as it is. Up here when I run my program, this will kick it off. This will give me my Run List and let me show you one more thing here before I leave you. Let's kick this off again and if it's a large project, you will see an Output Window down here let me go to View, Other Windows. Well I'm not going to have it here for right now, I'll show you that a little bit later on. Okay. But there's lots of things that are going to happen in this interface, just get comfortable with it. Notice right down here, here's my Error List Tab, I can always bring this up, I can see what's going on, I can see messages out here. So anyway lots of things happening here, that's a very simple first program, that's the basics for running programs in Visual C# 2010. Now there are some other things happening in the background and we'll get to those later. But if you can get your head around that, you're ready to go.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Microsoft C# 2010 |
| Author: | Mark Long |
| SKU: | 34306 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61866-037-4 |
| Release Date: | 2012-03-19 |
| Duration: | 8.5 hrs / 105 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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