Chapter 2. Getting Started with the Visual Studio 2012 IDE

In This Chapter

• What’s New in Visual Studio 2012

• Status Bar and Start Page

• Working with Projects and Solutions

• Working with Tool Windows

• My Project

• Compiling Projects

• Browsing the Visual Basic and .NET Documentation

• “Quick Launch” Tool

You develop Visual Basic applications using the Visual Studio 2012 Integrated Development Environment (IDE), which is the place where you will spend most of your developer life. Before diving deep into the Visual Basic language, you need to know what instruments you need to develop applications. Although the Visual Studio IDE is a complex environment, this chapter provides you with an overview of the most common tasks you will perform ...

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