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title: "Create a new app with Visual Studio tutorial"
description: Learn how to create a Windows Forms app with Visual Studio 2026 in this step-by-step tutorial. Start building your first app today!
ms.date: 12/18/2025
title: "Create a Windows Forms app tutorial"
description: Learn how to create a Windows Forms (WinForms) app with Visual Studio 2026 in this step-by-step tutorial. Start building your first app today!
ms.date: 02/26/2026
ms.service: dotnet-desktop
ms.update-cycle: 365-days
ms.topic: tutorial
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# Tutorial: Create a Windows Forms app by using .NET

In this tutorial, you learn how to use Visual Studio to create a Windows Forms app. By using Visual Studio, you add controls to a form and handle events. By the end of this tutorial, you have a simple app that adds names to a list box.
In this tutorial, you learn how to use Visual Studio to create a Windows Forms app. Visual Studio provides a visual designer for you to add controls and handle events. By the end of this tutorial, you have a simple app that adds names to a list box.

In this tutorial, you:

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### Enable the Toolbox and Properties windows

By default, Visual Studio doesn't open the Toolbox and Properties windows. Visual Studio does remember that you opened these windows and keeps them open in the future.
By default, Visual Studio doesn't open the Toolbox and Properties windows. Visual Studio remembers when you open these windows and keeps them open in the future.

To open the windows:

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title: "Create a new app with Visual Studio tutorial"
title: "Create a WPF app with Visual Studio tutorial"
description: Learn how to create a WPF app with Visual Studio 2026 in this step-by-step tutorial. Start building your first app today!
ms.date: 12/18/2025
ms.service: dotnet-desktop
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