Customizing the Development Environment

Customizing the development environment means making changes to the default behavior of Visual Studio to better suit an individual developer’s needs. Visual Studio .NET has many new customization features available never seen before in the Visual Studio family of products. In addition to an enormous amount of user settings, Visual Studio allows the use of macros like other Microsoft products such as Excel. In this section we will describe some of the customization options you can use to make your programming experience more personalized.

Changing Your Environmental Policy

You can control the look and feel of Visual Studio by setting some of the many available options. To access the Options dialog box, ...

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