Tools You Cannot Do Without

The following sections provide a short introduction to several kinds of tools, give an overview of their interrelation, and highlight their use. Not intended to be a tutorial, they provide some basic information needed in later parts of the book. For more information on specific tools, refer to the manuals provided with those tools. On the UNIX operating system, these man pages can be accessed via the man command by typing man toolname .

Users of Microsoft's Developer Studio can access many tools via its main menu; however, some tools are supplied only with the Professional or Enterprise Edition—or early editions—of the Developer Studio.

Whether the tools are used via an integrated GUI environment or not, they ...

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