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Complete Noob question

Hey all, I'm completely newb to c#. I just started up a very basic application in VS2005, and cannot figure out why the following code does not actually writeline. I build and then try to run using Ctrl-F5.

using System;
public class HelloWorld
{
public static void Main()
{
Console.WriteLine("Hello World! From Softsteel Solutions");
}

}

Thanks

Brian Mulder

Hello Dodger42,

you seem to miss namespace and every project needs one, within the namespace you can add you classes etc....

if you start a new project from the start menu and choose for a console application you'll end up with a Progam.csclass file that contains a carcass like
--------------------------
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
public class HelloWorld
{
public static void Main()
{
Console.WriteLine("Hi there");
}
}
}
--------------------------
i filled your public declaration instead of the wizard code and it ran to the commandline for me

for more info on starting this
http://www.ilopia.com/Articles/CSharp/IntroCSharp.aspx

hope this helps a bit
bruintje

Dodger42

ASKER

Ok that worked thanks. Just one question though, when you use the build function within VS2005, should it output the program.exe to the project folder? I had to use csc for this example.

Thanks

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Brian Mulder

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