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Work with individual files

Work with individual files - Visual Studio Tutorial

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Work with individual files

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- [Instructor] The first time you open Visual Studio, you are greeted with this dialog. It shows a list of common tasks for getting started. It's likely that what you want to do is listed here. The choices available are to clone an existing repository, open a project or solution, open a local folder, or create a new project. There could also be a list of recent projects on the left side, but since I'm working with a newly installed version, there's nothing in the list yet. I don't want to choose any of these choices. I'll click on this link at the bottom instead: Continue without code. And that brings up the standard Visual Studio interface. Before I go any further, I'm going to double-check that my window's layout is reset, even though this is a new install. If you're following along and you want to ensure your windows in the IDE look the same as mine, click here. Now let's talk about what you commonly do when you first work in a new tool like this. I guess you might want to write…

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