August 2012
Intermediate to advanced
840 pages
22h 41m
English
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IDE CONFIGURATIONS
When you install it, Visual Studio asks you what kinds of development settings you want to use. The most obvious choice for a Visual Basic developer is Visual Basic Development Settings. This choice customizes Visual Studio to work more easily with Visual Basic, and is a good selection if you will focus on Visual Basic development.
Another reasonable choice is General Development Settings. This option makes Visual Studio behave more like Visual Studio 2003. It’s a good choice if you’re used to Visual Studio 2003, or if you expect to use other Visual Studio languages, such as C#, somewhat regularly because these settings are fairly effective for C# development and Visual Basic development.
This book assumes that you have configured Visual Studio for Visual Basic development. If you have chosen a different configuration, some of the figures in this book may look different from what you see on your screen. Some of the menu items available may be slightly different, or may appear in a different order. Usually, the items are available somewhere, but you may have to search a bit to find them.
If you later decide that you want to switch configurations, open the Tools menu and select Import and Export Settings to display the Import and Export Settings Wizard. Select the Reset All Settings option button and click Next. On the second page, tell the wizard whether to save your current settings and click Next. On the wizard’s final page (shown in Figure 1-1), select the ...
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