Interactive Development Environment (IDE)
The goal in designing the new IDE was simple: developers should not have to go outside of their development environment to execute programming tasks. The result is a powerful set of tools, with very intuitive access to their features. The VS .NET IDE will change the way in which you write your VB .NET code. This section provides exposure to some of the tools and editing enhancements that VS .NET offers. It is not meant to be a complete or detailed reference, but it will make you aware of what is available to you.
New Tools
The IDE offers a number of new tools as well as improvements on nearly all previous tools. In the following section, we will walk through some of the key productivity enhancing tools ...
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