Using the Editor

The Visual Studio .NET environment includes a powerful text editor. This editor includes a number of features aimed at making your code-writing experience more productive and as flexible as possible. The following subsections describe some of the Visual Studio .NET code editor features.

Using IntelliSense to Enter Code

Programming in Visual Studio .NET, even at the very beginning, involves working with members (properties and methods) of objects. To make it easier for you, when you enter the name of any object, Visual Studio .NET provides a drop-down list of the members of that class of object. In addition, when you type the name of a method, Visual Studio .NET provides a description of the method signature, including a list ...

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