Microsoft® .NET Kick Start

Getting Started with Visual Studio .NET

The simplest way to get started with a rich tool such as Visual Studio .NET is to play around with it. Try developing a couple of kinds of applications (Web applications, Windows applications, Web services) to get a feel for the features and functionality of the tool. This section is geared for such getting-started tasks. You will use Visual Studio .NET to develop different kinds of solutions—console applications, Windows applications, and the like. Because the focus of this section is not on the actual code that you are going to be writing but the IDE features, you will create very simple Hello World–like applications. To illustrate the multiple programming languages' support of the environment, I will ...