Visual Studio® 2010 All-in-One For Dummies®

Introduction

Visual Studio 2010 is more than just the next version of Visual Studio to use with the next version of the .NET Framework. Visual Studio 2010 continues Microsoft's attempt to position Visual Studio as a tool you can use for the upstream and downstream development activities that sandwich actual code writing. For example, you can use Visual Studio to visually model the entities you want to create in code. Unlike other modeling tools that have only a one-way relationship between the model and the code generation, your code stays synchronized with the model.

Visual Studio 2010 is a complete rewrite of the user interface, but don't worry; the familiar commands and tools that you have come to know and love are still there. You'll notice a completely revised, intuitive, and modern user interface that showcases the tremendous leaps that Visual Studio has made since the release of Visual Studio .NET back in 2002.

Visual Studio 2010 provides a dizzying array of editors, controls, designers, and supporting tools for developing software. Getting mired in the details of using these tools is a productivity killer. This book uses plain English to show you how to use Visual Studio 2010 to get busy building software while ignoring unnecessary details. Use this book to focus on the work that pays the bills and to

• Improve your individual efficiency and productivity as a developer.

• Display proficiency in selecting the right Visual Studio 2010 tools required to develop a solution.

• Employ Visual ...