Step 1: Creating the WPF Application

Follow these instructions carefully to create your Jump Start WPF application. We highly recommend you use the specified names and directories shown in each step to ensure success!

1. Select File | New | Project... from the Visual Studio menu.

   

2. As shown in the above screen shot, in the filter box, enter MM .NET. In the center pane, select MM .NET WPF Application, then click Next. This launches the Configure your new project dialog:

   

3. In the Project Name box, enter: Order System WPF CSharp, and in the Location box, enter: C:\MM .NET Jump Start. Check the Place solution and project in the same directory check box and click the Create button.

4. This launches the New MM .NET Windows Presentation Foundation (C#) dialog. This is an MM .NET dialog that allows you to specify a default namespace for your project. The New Project text box displays the project you specified in the previous dialog:

   

5. In the Default Namespace box, enter: Acme.OrderSystem.WPF (don't forget the period between the words, and note that no spaces are allowed in the namespace).

6. Click OK. After a few seconds, your new solution is displayed in Visual Studio. Your Solution Explorer should look something like this:

   

   The first node in the tree view is your solution named Order System WPF CSharp, indicating it contains (1 project).

   The second node in the tree view is your WPF project. If you expand the References node you will see it contains references to both .NET Framework and MM .NET Framework assemblies.

   See Also:
   Step 2: Adding the Business Layer Project