Visual C# .NET Part 3: Visual Studio.NET at Work
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This third part in a series of articles by Michael Youssef provides comprehensive details on the Start menu in Visual Studio.NET and an entry-level discussion of toolbars and menus. Youssef talks about organizing your code files into solutions and projects. This comes from Michael Youssef's book
Visual C#.NET (The Absolute Power). For Part 2,
see here.
Visual Studio.NET is what .NET developers use to develop applications for the .NET Framework. So from now on we will use VS.NET to create all kinds of applications in this book. Microsoft spent many years developing this powerful tool using C#. Microsoft will use VS.NET to create all the products in the next few years. This powerful Integrated Development Environment (IDE) provides .NET developers with a lot of visual tools to minimize application development time, and you'll see how much time is saved when we develop our last application using VS.NET.
All Microsoft .NET programming languages use the same IDE. I mean that Visual Basic.NET, Visual C#.NET and Visual C++.NET developers will use only one IDE (IDE is another word for the most of tools that form VS.NET); the difference is that you will specify the programming language you want it to use. So in the same application, VB.NET developers will choose VB.NET project and VC#.NET will choose Visual C#.NET Project (Project is a group of files that form a part of an application). So in one application you can find VB.NET Projects and Visual C#.NET Projects to form one complete application. Figure 1 illustrates how to choose VB.NET projects and Visual C#.NET projects in VS.NET
Figure 1 illustrates that Visual C# Project is selected on the left pane. You can select Visual basic projects or Visual C++ projects.
Figure 1
VS.NET contains many features and tools, but for now we will discuss the components that you should know about it.
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