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C# Hello World Application edit button Edit

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Rakesh Kumar Sutar | calendar 18 January 2021 | 3410

In this tutorial we will create our first Hello World application in C# using .NET Framework.

Program

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace Hello_World
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Hello World");
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
    }
}

Why namespace Hello_World ?

Namespaces are commonly used in C# programming in two ways.
First, .NET uses namespaces to organize its many classes, as follows:

System.Console.WriteLine("Hello World!");
System is a namespace and Console is a class in that namespace. The using keyword can be used so that the complete name is not required, as in the below example:
using System;
Second, declaring your own namespaces can help you control the scope of class and method names in larger programming projects. Use the namespace keyword to declare a namespace, as in the below example:
namespace Hello_World
{
   //write your code here
}

Why static void Main(string[] args) ?

C# applications have an entry point called Main Method. It is the first method which gets invoked whenever an application started and it is present in every C# executable file. The most common entry point of a C# program is static void Main() or static void Main(String []args).

static: It means Main Method can be called without an object.
public: It is access modifiers which means the compiler can execute this from anywhere.
void: The Main method doesn't return anything.
Main(): It means program execution starts from here.
String []args: For accepting the zero-indexed command line arguments. args is the user-defined name. So you can change it by a valid identifer. [] must come before the args otherwise compiler will give errors.