Learn Basic C# using Visual Studio 2017

This Post is to help show the steps of installing Visual Studio 2017 community version, and building your first WPF application in ASP.NET C#. These are some basics to learning C#.

The first step is to go to https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads and download VS 17.

Click the Download button, and run once it has installed.

When the VS installer loads select the packages you want. For our Install we selected.

• Universal Windows Platform development
• .Net desktop Development
• Asp.Net and Web development

Install may take awhile and may require a reboot.

 

Once you have VS 2017 Installed.

1. Open VS
2. File -> New -> Project ->Windows Classic Desktop -> WPF  App (.NET Framework)
3. click MainWindow.xaml
   1. Add a Textbox and a TextBlock to MainWindow.
      1. Name the TextBox txtbox1 and the textBlock txtBlock1
   2. Add a Btn to MainWindow
      1. name Btn1
5. Add following code to your MainWindow.xaml.cs (Inside the namespace “YourProjectName” curly brackets (‘{‘))
6. public partial class MainWindow : Window
{
public MainWindow()
{
InitializeComponent();txtBlock1.Text = “Howdy Youtube!”;
   }public void updateTxtBoxText()
   {
   //Update teh Txt block to equal the txtbox text.
   txtBlock1.Text = txtBox1.Text;
   }private void btn1_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
   {
   //Call update txt box when btn is pressed.

   

7. updateTxtBoxText();
   }
   }
8. Click Run Debug and watch the result.