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Technically speaking, you can build a Windows application at the command line using the 

/target:exe

option; however, if you do, you will find that a command window will be looming in the background (and it will stay

there until you shut down the main window). When you specify 

/target:winexe

, your executable runs as a native

Windows Forms application (without the looming command window).

If you were to run your application, you would find you have a resizable, minimizable, maxi-

mizable, and closable topmost window (see Figure 27-2).

Figure 27-2.

A very simple Windows Forms application

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Granted, our current application is not terribly exciting, but it does illustrate how simple a

Windows Forms application can be. To spruce things up a bit, let’s add a custom constructor to our

MainWindow type, which allows the caller to set various properties on the window to be displayed.

For example: