Google "Windows desktop development" -> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/desktop/
Click the first chapter -> "Overview of app development options". It explains the options and their differences at a high level. Admittedly if you choose WinUI3 I haven't much experience, but if you chose WPF...
Google "Microsoft WPF" and click the 1st result:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/desktop/wpf/?view=ne...
Click the link "Create a WPF application". You get a lovely guide that was updated within the last month or so.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/desktop/wpf/get-star...
You can't really complain if you are a newbie, don't follow the tutorial, and find things confusing.
Dayshine's post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29529535)shows the easiest way to do things from the command line.