May 2010
Intermediate to advanced
1272 pages
61h 18m
English
Since previous versions, Visual Studio has always been an extensible environment. This means that it can be extended and enhanced with additional tools, windows, add-ins, packages, and macros to increase your productivity with specific instruments that you might need for adjusting the environment to your developer needs. Behind the scenes, Visual Studio is a mixed-mode application meaning that it is built on both COM and .NET architectures, although in the 2008 and 2010 versions the managed architecture plays a bigger role than in the past.
Visual Studio takes advantage of several .NET assemblies whose names begin with Microsoft.VisualStudio.XXX.dll (where XXX stands for a particular environment area) ...
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