As mentioned earlier, the .NET Framework (and Microsoft's Visual Studio.NET) makes it easy to produce console applications, windows forms applications, web form applications and web services. Examples of standalone programs that are console applications or windows forms applications will now be given. Although these examples are coded using C#, each of these examples could just as easily have been coded in any other .NET language, such as Visual Basic.NET ([4]).

Examples of C# being used to support web forms and web services are dealt with in another document ([2]).