May 2010
Beginner to intermediate
551 pages
18h 34m
English
Content preview from Stephens' C# Programming with Visual Studio® 2010 24-Hour Trainer
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Getting Started with the
Visual Studio IDE
The Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE) plays a central role in
Visual C# development. In this lesson you explore the IDE. You learn how to configure it
for Visual C# development, and you learn about some of the more useful of the IDE’s win-
dows and what they do. When you finish this lesson, you’ll know how to create a new proj-
ect. It may not do much, but it will run and will prepare you for the lessons that follow.
Visual Studio is a development environment that you can use with several pro-
gramming languages including Visual C#, Visual Basic, Visual C++, and F#.
C# is a high-level programming language that can read inputs, calculate results,
display outputs to the user, and perform other operations typical of high-level
programming languages.
Visual C# is the combination of C# used in the Visual Studio development envi-
ronment. You can use a text editor to write C# programs without Visual Studio,
but it’s a lot of work and is not the focus of this book.
Visual C# and C# go together like politicians and bickering: if you mention one,
most people assume you’re also talking about the other. Most people simply say
C#, so this book does, too, unless there’s a reason to distinguish between C# and
Visual C#.
The .NET Framework also plays an important role in C# programs. It includes
classes that make performing certain tasks ...
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