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title: "Creating a New Windows Form"
description: Find topics that introduce basic vocabulary, guidelines, and instructions you should understand to when you start to create a Windows Forms application.
ms.date: "03/30/2017"
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  - "Windows Forms, getting started"
  - "Windows Forms, creating a new form"
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# Creating a New Windows Form
This topic contains links to topics that describe how to create your first Windows Forms application. Also, the topics in this section introduce some of the basic vocabulary and guidelines that you should understand when you start to create a Windows Forms application. To learn more about Windows Forms applications, the controls you can use on them, events and handling events, and how to handle input from the user, see the related topic list.  
  
## In This Section  
 [Windows Forms Coordinates](windows-forms-coordinates.md)  
 Describes client and screen coordinates.  
  
 [How to: Create a Windows Forms Application from the Command Line](how-to-create-a-windows-forms-application-from-the-command-line.md)  
 Describes how to create a basic Windows Form and compile it from the command line.  
  
## Reference  
 <xref:System.Windows.Forms.Form>  
 Describes this class and contains links to all its members.  
  
 <xref:System.Windows.Forms.Control>  
 Describes this class and contains links to all its members.  
  
## Related Sections  
 [Handling User Input](./controls/handling-user-input.md)  
 Contains links to topics that discuss user input and how to handle it in Windows Forms applications.  
  
 [Creating Event Handlers in Windows Forms](creating-event-handlers-in-windows-forms.md)  
 Contains links to topics that describe how to handle events in Windows Forms applications.  
  
 [Changing the Appearance of Windows Forms](changing-the-appearance-of-windows-forms.md)  
 Contains links to topics that show how to change the appearance of Windows Forms applications.  
  
 [Windows Forms Controls by Function](./controls/windows-forms-controls-by-function.md)  
 Contains links to topics that describe the controls you can use in Windows Forms applications.
