Microsoft® .NET Kick Start

Using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003

So far, you haven't used a tool for developing a GUI application. Still, the source code for the application hasn't exceeded more than about 25 lines. This richness and developer productivity for GUI application development has been unheard of, particularly in the C++ developer camp. However, the real developer productivity in developing GUI applications appears when a tool is used. Visual Studio .NET 2003 provides a single tool that can be used by C#, Visual Basic .NET, Managed C++, and Visual J# programmers to visually develop rich and great-looking Windows applications. Apart from the traditional functionality of an IDE (debugging, project management, and so on), you can greatly reduce your development ...