Starting off are C# application

Doom · January 3rd, 2008, 09:54 AM

am i right in saying that you always start of a c# console application with a class.

Also whats is the differnet between visual c# and c#

thanks.

samjudson · January 3rd, 2008, 10:04 AM

A console application starts with a class, correct, but the class must contain the static Main method. The class used to start the application can be changed in the project properties.

C# is the programming language. Visual C# usually refers to the free version of Visual Studio Express which you can only use C# with, but some people also use it to refer to general use of C# inside any version of Visual Studio.

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Doom · January 3rd, 2008, 03:31 PM

so am i right in saying that you can not write any code outside of a class.

samjudson · January 3rd, 2008, 04:50 PM

Not really no. VB.Net has something called Modules, but even these are just kind of hidden classes really.

Why do you ask? What is it you are trying to do that you can't work out?

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Doom · January 3rd, 2008, 05:33 PM

i am just trying to understand on how to structure my code.

samjudson · January 3rd, 2008, 05:50 PM

Well Visual Studio 2005 creates a class called "Program" which contains the "Main" method which is required for a console application. This should probably then just create an instance of your worker class, or alternatively call its static methods to perform the actions.

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Doom · January 3rd, 2008, 06:08 PM

will do, thanks for you help.