A Quick Tour Through Visual Studio 2010

With Visual Studio 2010 installed, let’s take a quick tour through the IDE you’ll be spending a lot of your time as a developer in.

What Got Installed

Depending on the edition you have installed, a number of tools will have been installed in parallel with the Visual Studio 2010 editor itself. Figure 3.18 shows the Start menu entry for Visual Studio 2010 for an Ultimate Edition installation on a 64-bit machine. A few notable entries here are as follows:

Visual Studio 2010 Command Prompt provides a command prompt window with several environment variables set, including additions to the search path to locate various tools such as the command-line compilers.

Visual Studio 2010 Remote Debugger is one of ...

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