Wrox's Visual C# 2005 Express Edition Starter Kit
Chapter One
Starting Strong with
Visual C# 2005
Express Edition
Okay, so the title of this chapter may be a little over the top. But to be honest, the Visual C# 2005
Express Edition, from now on referred to as C# Express, rocks as a starting development environment.
If you are just starting out in developing, you don't realize how lucky you are to start with
an environment such as C# Express, which really tries to walk you through getting into programming
fairly gently. In the old days, just a few years ago (back when I had hair), you were handed
an editor such as Notepad.exe and given-command line programs to compile and run your applications.
That has all changed.
For C# being such a powerful language, Microsoft has worked hard to make the development
environment that you use to create computer programs, even for seasoned developers, as painless
as possible. Before, when developing with a lower-level language, such as C or Assembly, you had
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