Can you create an application using notepad with the extension "exe"

Question

How applications are created using notepad

Answer 1

You can create a file with an exe extension (or any extension you want) using notepad, but it won't be able to execute it.

The OS expects an exe to be in a format called PE, (EDIT: while Notepad uses ASCII text format). You can however, use a hexeditor (an editor that allows you to manually modify each byte of the file) to manually create an "exe" file. However, this is very difficult and forces you to write all your code in raw machine code.

Sufficed to say, no one edits .exe files manually. Instead you use a compiler to transform a higher level language (like C) into a PE file Windows can load and start executing.

For C/C++/C#/F#/VB.NET on Windows you do this using Microsoft's Visual Studio (which is now free).

Answer 2

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