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Chapter 2
Quickstart
This is a book about developing apps. So, to quote Paul Bettany’s portrayal of Geoffrey Chaucer in
A Knight’s Tale, “without further gilding the lily, and with no more ado,” let’s create some!
A Really Quick Quickstart: The Blank App Template
We must begin, of course, by paying due homage to the quintessential “Hello World” app, which we can
achieve without actually writing any code at all. We simply need to create a new app from a template in
Visual Studio:
1. Run Visual Studio Express. If this is your first time, you’ll be prompted to obtain a developer
license. Do this, because you can’t go any further without it!
2. Click New Project… in the Visual Studio window, or use the File > New Project menu command.
3. In the dialog that appears (Figure 2-1), make sure you select JavaScript under Templates on the
left side, and then select Blank Application in the middle. Give it a name (HelloWorld will do), a
folder, and click OK.
FIGURE 2-1 Visual Studio’s New Project dialog using the light UI theme. (See the Tools > Options menu
command, and then change the theme in the Environment/General section). I use the light theme in this
book because it looks best against a white page background.
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