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Where are my files?

When you run your program, Visual Studio copies your files to My Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\Contacts\Contacts\bin\debug. You can even hop over to that directory and run your program by double-clicking on the .exe file the IDE creates.

Note

This isn’t a mistake; there are two levels of folders. The inner folder has the actual C# code files.

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There are no Dumb Questions

Q:

Q: In my IDE, the green arrow is marked as “Debug.” Is that a problem?

A:

A: No. Debugging, at least for our purposes right now, just means running your application inside the IDE. We’ll talk a lot more about debugging later, but for now, you can simply think about it as a way to run your program.

Q:

Q: I don’t see the Stop Debugging button on my toolbar. What gives?


  

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