Chapter 3. The .NET Languages
In This Chapter
Unlocking the productivity promises of the Visual Studio IDE is at the heart of this book. The IDE, of course, also ships from Microsoft in concert with new versions of the .NET languages and Framework. You need to have a solid grasp of programming the Visual Basic or C# language using the .NET Framework to take advantage of everything Visual Studio has to offer.
In this chapter, we set aside the IDE (for the most part) and focus on the foundations of .NET programming. We start with a language primer on the basics; we then cover some more in-depth programming features and language-related IDE enhancements. The ...
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