November 2008
Beginner
696 pages
17h 43m
English
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The Integrated Development Environment
Although you can perform all of these writing and compiling tasks using Notepad and various command-line tools, your programming life will be much easier if you use the integrated development environment (IDE) called Visual Studio 2008. Visual Studio 2008 was designed with .NET development in mind, and it greatly simplifies the writing of C# program code. This book assumes you are using Visual C# 2008 Express or Visual Studio 2008, both of which provide the Visual Studio 2008 development environment.
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The overwhelming majority of C# programmers will be building Windows and web applications for the .NET platform using Visual Studio 2008 or Visual C# 2008 Express, and we’ve tested all the examples for this book in that environment.
Excellent open source C# compilers are available, such as those from the Mono project (http://www.mono-project.com) and #develop (http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SD/). Everything in this book should work with those compilers, but we have not tested with them and cannot guarantee 100% compatibility.
The Visual Studio 2008 IDE provides enormous advantages to the C# programmer. This book tacitly assumes that you’ll use Visual Studio 2008 or Visual C# 2008 Express for your work. However, the discussion focuses more on the language and the platform than on the tools.
Nonetheless, Chapter 2 provides an introduction to the IDE in some detail. Chapter 9 returns to the IDE to examine the debugger, which will help you find ...
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