To get started, open your Visual Studio 2017 IDE and navigate to File | New | Project... (or press keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + N). This will open the new project window on your screen:

In the New Project dialog window, navigate to Installed | Templates | Visual C# | Windows Classic Desktop, and select the WPF App template from the list. Select the appropriate .NET Framework that you are targeting your app for (must be 3.5 or higher). Here we have selected the .NET Framework 4.6.1.

Enter the name of the solution, the location of the project code base, and the project name. Once you have filled up all the necessary details on the screen, click on the OK button. This will start creating the project from the selected project template:

Alternatively, you can search for wpf app in the search box under the New Project section of the Visual Studio 2017 Start Page to bring the preceding dialog, selecting the correct project automatically: