January 2013
Intermediate to advanced
912 pages
26h 58m
English
book
Professional Visual Basic 2012 and .NET 4.5 Programming
by Bill Sheldon, Billy Hollis, Rob Windsor, David McCarter, Gastón Hillar, Todd Herman
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Summary
In this chapter, you have taken a dive into the versions and features of Visual Studio. This chapter was intended to help you explore the new Visual Studio IDE. It demonstrated the powerful features of the IDE.
You've seen that Visual Studio is highly customizable and comes in a variety of flavors. As you worked within Visual Studio, you've seen how numerous windows can be hidden, docked, or undocked. They can be layered in tabs and moved both within and beyond the IDE. Visual Studio also contains many tools, including some that extend its core capabilities.
In the next chapter you will learn more about the runtime environment for .NET, which provides a layer of abstraction above the operating system. Your application runs within this runtime environment. The next chapter looks at how functions like memory management and operating system compatibility are handled in .NET.