Visual Basic 2005 Programmer's Reference
Chapter One
IDE
This chapter describes Visual Studio's integrated development environment (IDE). It explains the
most important windows, menus, and toolbars that make up the environment, and shows how to
customize them to suit your personal preferences. It also explains some of the tools that provide
help while you are writing Visual Basic applications.
Even if you are an experienced Visual Basic programmer, you should at least skim this material.
The IDE is extremely complex and provides hundreds (if not thousands) of commands, menus,
toolbars, windows, context menus, and other tools for editing, running, and debugging Visual
Basic projects. Even if you have used the IDE for a long time, there are sure to be some features
that you have overlooked. This chapter describes some of the most important of those features,
and you may discover something useful that you've never noticed before.
Even after you've read this chapter, you should periodically spend some time wandering through
the IDE to see what you've missed. Every month or so, spend ... read full excerpt from Visual Basic 2005 Programmer's Reference ebook