The following code is example of a console application:

Module Module1

Sub Main()
System.Console.Write("Welcome to Console Applications")
End Sub

End Module

You run the code by selecting Debug->Start from the main menu or by pressing F5 on the
keyboard. The result "Welcome to Console Applications" displayed on a DOS window.
Alternatively, you can run the program using the VB compiler (vbc). To do that, go to the
Visual Studio. NET command prompt selecting from
Start->Programs->Visual Studio.NET->Visual Studio.NET Tools->Visual Studio.NET
Command Prompt and type:
c:\examples>vbc example1.vb.

The result, "Welcome to Console Applications" is displayed on a DOS window as shown in

the image below.

Breaking the Code to understand it

Note the first line, we're creating a Visual Basic Module and Modules are designed to hold
code. All the code which we write should be within the Module.
Next line starts with Sub Main(), the entry point of the program.
The third line indicates that we are using the Write method of the System.Console class to
write to the console.

Commenting the Code

Comments in VB.NET begin with a single quote (') character and the statements following
that are ignored by the compiler. Comments are generally used to specify what is going on
in the program and also gives an idea about the flow of the program. The general form
looks like this:

Dim I as Integer
'declaring an integer

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