Chapter 7. The .NET Community: Consuming and Creating Shared Code

IN THIS CHAPTER

The .NET community is a large and diverse group. Take a quick look across the Internet and you will find countless bits of content and help for building applications. Microsoft added several new community features to the prior version, Visual Studio 2005. These features help you quickly gain access to information, sample code, and productivity aids provided by other developers and communities out there. Visual Studio helps to package this content, manage it, and streamline access to it.

This chapter covers how developers can take advantage of the community capabilities ...

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