Day 2. Introduction to Visual Studio .NET

Yesterday you learned about the .NET Framework and what it means to you as a developer. For the next 20 days, you're going to learn how to write applications using the .NET Framework and how to use the tools to achieve rapid application development (RAD). All of that starts with having a solid understanding of the development tool that you'll be using: Visual Studio .NET. Visual Studio .NET includes everything you need to rapidly develop and debug all aspects of any type of application that you can think of. It's somewhat overshadowed by the whole concept of .NET. The bottom line to you is that anything and everything was thought of when the development environment was designed. In fact, most of it was ...

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