Programming PERL in the .NET Environment

Summary

Visual Studio .NET is a very rich integrated development environment (IDE), with many features to make programming more enjoyable. Visual Perl is an add-on that enables you to work with Perl in the Visual Studio environment. In this chapter we covered the basics of using Visual Studio to edit, compile, run, and debug programs so that you will be equipped to use Visual Studio in the rest of the book. .NET has a vast array of features for building database applications, Web applications, components, and many other kinds of projects. It supports many different languages. In this book we use only a tiny fraction of the capabilities of this powerful tool, but the simple features we employ are very useful, and will certainly make your life ...