Create First Hello World App On Universal Windows Platform (UWP)

Step 1: Create a new project. Go to File, New, then Project. Under Visual C# > Universal, select Blank App (Universal Windows). Name it “Hello World” and click OK.



Step 2: You have created your application. Now in the Solution explorer you’ll see MainPage.xaml (To open Solution Explorer Go to View > Solution Explorer or Press Ctrl+W, S).



Step 3: Go to the MainPage.xaml. It is a designer where you can add all the controls like Button, Images, Medias, Inputs, etc. Visual Studio 2015 has provided a cool feature here. We can design for different devices such as Phones, Tablets, Desktop, Xbox, Surface Hub and IoT Devices.

Right now we are developing for Windows Tables/PCs, so we’ll select Tablet.





Step 4: Drag a TextBlock from Toolbox and put it in designer. In an Xaml, we can create this TextBlockcontrol using Xaml code.



Step 5: Change the Text to "Hello World" in the XAML Editor and font size to 50.



In XAML, our code looks like the following: