Chapter 17. Creating Objects: Visual Tools and Portable Libraries

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Visual Studio Class Designer

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• Portable Class Libraries

Visual Studio 2012 is the best version ever of the premier developer tool from Microsoft. It offers a powerful code editor with the presence of IntelliSense that dramatically simplifies your coding experience. Writing code and architecting objects before writing code have the same importance, and for this reason Visual Studio lets you reach both objectives easily. On one side, it enables you to graphically design objects for your applications and contextually write code related to such objects. The built-in tool that enables you to perform this task is known as Class Designer, and ...

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